DE-800 USS Jack W Wilke

Namesake. Jack Winton Wilke, (13 Jun 1919- 4 June 1942) fought in the Battle of Midway attacking the Imperial Japanese Navy invasion force without fighter cover, posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
Builder. Consolidated Steel Corp, Orange, TX
Type. Buckley-class destroyer escort
Laid down. 18 Oct 1943
Launched. 18 Dec 1943
Commissioned. 7 Mar 1944
Decommissioned. 24 May 1960
Stricken. 1 Aug 1972
Fate. Sold for scrap, 4 Mar 1974
Displacement:
1,740 tons full
1,400 tons, standard
Length. 306 ft 0 in (93 m)
Beam. 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
Draft. 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion:
GE turbo-electric drive
12,000 shp (8.9 MW), two propellers
Speed. 24 knots (44 km/h)
Range. 4,940 nautical miles (9,150 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement. 15 officers, 198 men
Armament:
3 × 3 in (76 mm) DP guns
3 × 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes
1 × 1.1 in (28 mm) quad AA gun
8 × 20 mm cannon
1 × hedgehog projector
2 × depth charge tracks
8 × K-gun depth charge projectors