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bold">Displacement</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1,253 tons standard</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1,590 tons full load</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>306 feet (93.27 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>36.58 feet (11.15 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 <a href="/wiki/Fairbanks-Morse" title="Fairbanks-Morse">FM</a> <a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">diesel engines</a>,</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 diesel-<a href="/wiki/Engine-generator" class="mw-redirect" 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She served in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> and provided destroyer escort protection against <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> and air attack for Navy vessels and <a href="/wiki/Convoys" class="mw-redirect" title="Convoys">convoys</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Namesake">Namesake</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Namesake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fred Kenneth Moore was born on 17 December 1921 at <a href="/wiki/Campbell,_Texas" title="Campbell, Texas">Campbell, Texas</a>. He attended Lone Oak High School in Lone Oak, Texas. He enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> on 31 July 1940. He was serving on the <a href="/wiki/USS_Arizona" title="USS Arizona">USS <i>Arizona</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> on 7 December 1941 when the <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">Attack on Pearl Harbor</a> took place. Seaman Moore remained at his station on <a href="/wiki/Antiaircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiaircraft">antiaircraft</a> gun No. 1 in spite of orders to take cover when the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafing</a> became severe. With two other members of the gun crew, he assisted in keeping the gun in operation until he was killed by an explosion. He was posthumously awarded the <a href="/wiki/Navy_Cross_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy Cross (United States)">Navy Cross</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_commissioning">Construction and commissioning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction and commissioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Moore</i> (DE 240) was laid down 20 July 1942 at the <a href="/wiki/Brown_Shipbuilding" title="Brown Shipbuilding">Brown Shipbuilding</a> Co., <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, Texas; launched 20 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Fred Moore, mother of Seaman Fred K. Moore; and commissioned 1 July 1943. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II_North_Atlantic_operations">World War II North Atlantic operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World War II North Atlantic operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following shakedown off <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>, Moore steamed to <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>, where she reported for duty with <a href="/wiki/Task_force" title="Task force">task force</a> TF 63, then escorted merchant <a href="/wiki/Convoys" class="mw-redirect" title="Convoys">convoys</a>, beginning 10 September 1943. Before the end of the year she had transited the Atlantic to <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> twice. On 13 January 1944, she relieved <a href="/wiki/USS_Decker" title="USS Decker">USS <i>Decker</i> (DE-47)</a> for a month of operations off the <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> coast under Com Fleet Air Wing, <a href="/wiki/Quonset_Point,_Rhode_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Quonset Point, Rhode Island">Quonset Point, Rhode Island</a>. In March, she sailed to <a href="/wiki/Casco_Bay" title="Casco Bay">Casco Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, for abbreviated training exercises and then headed south to Norfolk where she joined <a href="/wiki/Task_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Task Force">task group</a> TG 24.14 and sailed, on the 15th, in the screen of <a href="/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(CVE-64)" title="USS Tripoli (CVE-64)">USS <i>Tripoli</i> (CVE-64)</a> for <a href="/wiki/Antisubmarine" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisubmarine">antisubmarine</a> patrol duty west of the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a> Islands. A unit of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._4th_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. 4th Fleet">U.S. 4th Fleet</a> for under 2 months, she returned to Norfolk, 27 April, and, in May, continued her patrols with Tripoli in the North Atlantic, from <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> to <a href="/wiki/Argentia,_Newfoundland" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentia, Newfoundland">Argentia, Newfoundland</a>, in TG 22.4. </p><p>Detached for the month of July, she conducted coastal operations and escort work, and completed one escort run to Bermuda before resuming operations with TG 22.4, assigned this time to <a href="/wiki/USS_Core" title="USS Core">USS <i>Core</i> (CVE-13)</a>. For the remainder of the war in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> she operated with Core, cruising along the east coast and in the western Atlantic from <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> to <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Newfoundland" title="Dominion of Newfoundland">Newfoundland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reassigned_to_the_Pacific_Fleet">Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 11 May 1945, she put into <a href="/wiki/Tompkinsville,_Staten_Island" title="Tompkinsville, Staten Island">Tompkinsville</a>, shifting later to <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> and then to <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, for overhaul preparatory to her reassignment to the Pacific Fleet. She got underway for the Pacific, with others of her division, <a href="/wiki/CortDiv" class="mw-redirect" title="CortDiv">CortDiv</a> 7, for which she served as <a href="/wiki/Flagship" title="Flagship">flagship</a>, 24 June. On 4 August she arrived at <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a>, where, 10 days later, she received word of the Japanese agreement to Allied surrender terms. On the 20th, she resumed her westward voyage and arrived, on the 29th, at <a href="/wiki/Saipan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saipan">Saipan</a>. There she reported to TF 94 for post war duty under Com <a href="/wiki/Marianas" class="mw-redirect" title="Marianas">Marianas</a> area. Assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Volcano_Islands" title="Volcano Islands">Bonin Volcano</a> area she anchored off western <a href="/wiki/Iwo_Jima" title="Iwo Jima">Iwo Jima</a>, 3 September, and a few days later commenced air sea rescue operations with Fleet Air Wing 18. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Postwar_decommissioning">Postwar decommissioning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Postwar decommissioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Moore</i> returned to the United States in late 1946 with orders to report to the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Reserve_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic Reserve Fleet">Atlantic Reserve Fleet</a> for inactivation. That work, begun in January 1947, was completed 30 June, when <i>Moore</i> decommissioned and joined the <a href="/wiki/16th_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Fleet">16th Fleet</a>. Berthed originally at <a href="/wiki/Green_Cove_Springs,_Florida" title="Green Cove Springs, Florida">Green Cove Springs, Florida</a>, she was later transferred to the Norfolk Reserve Group. She was struck from the <a href="/wiki/Navy_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy list">Navy list</a> on 1 August 1973 and sunk as a target off <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, 13 June 1975. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> <i>This article incorporates text from the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> </i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a><i>. 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Peary (DE-132)"><i>Robert E. Peary</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pillsbury_(DE-133)" title="USS Pillsbury (DE-133)"><i>Pillsbury</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pope_(DE-134)" title="USS Pope (DE-134)"><i>Pope</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Flaherty" title="USS Flaherty"><i>Flaherty</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Frederick_C._Davis" title="USS Frederick C. Davis"><i>Frederick C. Davis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Herbert_C._Jones" title="USS Herbert C. Jones"><i>Herbert C. Jones</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Douglas_L._Howard" title="USS Douglas L. Howard"><i>Douglas L. Howard</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Farquhar_(DE-139)" title="USS Farquhar (DE-139)"><i>Farquhar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_J.R.Y._Blakely" title="USS J.R.Y. Blakely"><i>J.R.Y. Blakely</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Hill" title="USS Hill"><i>Hill</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Fessenden" title="USS Fessenden"><i>Fessenden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Fiske_(DE-143)" title="USS Fiske (DE-143)"><i>Fiske</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Frost" title="USS Frost"><i>Frost</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Huse" title="USS Huse"><i>Huse</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Inch" title="USS Inch"><i>Inch</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Blair" title="USS Blair"><i>Blair</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Brough" title="USS Brough"><i>Brough</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Chatelain" title="USS Chatelain"><i>Chatelain</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Neunzer" title="USS Neunzer"><i>Neunzer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Poole" title="USS Poole"><i>Poole</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Peterson_(DE-152)" title="USS Peterson (DE-152)"><i>Peterson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Stewart_(DE-238)" title="USS Stewart (DE-238)"><i>Stewart</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Sturtevant_(DE-239)" title="USS Sturtevant (DE-239)"><i>Sturtevant</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Moore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Keith_(DE-241)" title="USS Keith (DE-241)"><i>Scott</i></a> / <a href="/wiki/USS_Keith_(DE-241)" title="USS Keith (DE-241)"><i>Keith</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Tomich" title="USS Tomich"><i>Tomich</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_J._Richard_Ward_(DE-243)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS J. Richard Ward (DE-243)"><i>James R. Ward</i></a> / <a href="/wiki/USS_J._Richard_Ward" title="USS J. Richard Ward"><i>J. Richard Ward</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Otterstetter" title="USS Otterstetter"><i>Otterstetter</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Sloat_(DE-245)" title="USS Sloat (DE-245)"><i>Sloat</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Snowden" title="USS Snowden"><i>Snowden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Stanton" title="USS Stanton"><i>Stanton</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Swasey_(DE-248)" title="USS Swasey (DE-248)"><i>Swasey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Marchand" title="USS Marchand"><i>Marchand</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Hurst_(DE-250)" title="USS Hurst (DE-250)"><i>Hurst</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Camp" title="USS Camp"><i>Camp</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Howard_D._Crow" title="USS Howard D. Crow"><i>Howard D. Crow</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pettit" title="USS Pettit"><i>Pettit</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Ricketts" title="USS Ricketts"><i>Ricketts</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Sellstrom" title="USS Sellstrom"><i>Sellstrom</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Harveson" title="USS Harveson"><i>Harveson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Joyce" title="USS Joyce"><i>Joyce</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Kirkpatrick" title="USS Kirkpatrick"><i>Kirkpatrick</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Leopold" title="USS Leopold"><i>Leopold</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Menges" title="USS Menges"><i>Menges</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Mosley" title="USS Mosley"><i>Mosley</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Newell" title="USS Newell"><i>Newell</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pride" title="USS Pride"><i>Pride</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Falgout" title="USS Falgout"><i>Falgout</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lowe" title="USS Lowe"><i>Lowe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Thomas_J._Gary_(DE-326)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)"><i>Gary</i></a> / <a href="/wiki/USS_Thomas_J._Gary" title="USS Thomas J. Gary"><i>Thomas J. Gary</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Brister" title="USS Brister"><i>Brister</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Finch_(DE-328)" title="USS Finch (DE-328)"><i>Finch</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Kretchmer" title="USS Kretchmer"><i>Kretchmer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_O%27Reilly" title="USS O'Reilly"><i>O'Reilly</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Koiner" title="USS Koiner"><i>Koiner</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Price" title="USS Price"><i>Price</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Strickland" title="USS Strickland"><i>Strickland</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Forster" title="USS Forster"><i>Forster</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Daniel" title="USS Daniel"><i>Daniel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Roy_O._Hale" title="USS Roy O. Hale"><i>Roy O. Hale</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Dale_W._Peterson" title="USS Dale W. Peterson"><i>Dale W. Peterson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Martin_H._Ray" title="USS Martin H. Ray"><i>Martin H. Ray</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Ramsden" title="USS Ramsden"><i>Ramsden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Mills" title="USS Mills"><i>Mills</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Rhodes" title="USS Rhodes"><i>Rhodes</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Richey" title="USS Richey"><i>Richey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Savage" title="USS Savage"><i>Savage</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Vance" title="USS Vance"><i>Vance</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lansing" title="USS Lansing"><i>Lansing</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Durant" title="USS Durant"><i>Durant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Calcaterra" title="USS Calcaterra"><i>Calcaterra</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Chambers" title="USS Chambers"><i>Chambers</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Merrill_(DE-392)" title="USS Merrill (DE-392)"><i>Merrill</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Haverfield" title="USS Haverfield"><i>Haverfield</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Swenning" title="USS Swenning"><i>Swenning</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Willis" title="USS Willis"><i>Willis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Janssen" title="USS Janssen"><i>Janssen</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Wilhoite" title="USS Wilhoite"><i>Wilhoite</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cockrill" title="USS Cockrill"><i>Cockrill</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Stockdale_(DE-399)" title="USS Stockdale (DE-399)"><i>Stockdale</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Hissem" title="USS Hissem"><i>Hissem</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Holder_(DE-401)" title="USS Holder (DE-401)"><i>Holder</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div id="Post-World_War_II_operators" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Post-World War II operators</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="803" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Newell" title="USS Newell"><i>Newell</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pride" title="USS Pride"><i>Pride</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Falgout" title="USS Falgout"><i>Falgout</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lowe" title="USS Lowe"><i>Lowe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Finch_(DE-328)" title="USS Finch (DE-328)"><i>Finch</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Kretchmer" title="USS Kretchmer"><i>Kretchmer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Koiner" title="USS Koiner"><i>Koiner</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Forster" title="USS Forster"><i>Forster</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Ramsden" title="USS Ramsden"><i>Ramsden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Richey" title="USS Richey"><i>Richey</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Vance" title="USS Vance"><i>Vance</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lansing" title="USS Lansing"><i>Lansing</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Durant" title="USS Durant"><i>Durant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Chambers" title="USS Chambers"><i>Chambers</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg/20px-Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg/30px-Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg/40px-Naval_Jack_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Navy" title="Mexican Navy">Mexican Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Hurst_(DE-250)" title="USS Hurst (DE-250)"><i>Commodore Manuel Azueta</i></a> / <a href="/wiki/USS_Hurst_(DE-250)" title="USS Hurst (DE-250)"><i>Commodore Manuel Azueta Perillos</i></a> (ex-<i>Hurst</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Philippine_Navy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1403" data-file-height="842" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Navy" title="Philippine Navy">Philippine Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BRP_Rajah_Lakandula" title="BRP Rajah Lakandula"><i>Rajah Lakandula</i></a> (ex-<i>Trần Hưng Đạo</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_Armed_Forces" title="Tunisian Armed Forces">Tunisian National Navy|Tunisian Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Thomas_J._Gary_(DE-326)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)"><i>President Bourguiba</i></a> / <a href="/wiki/USS_Thomas_J._Gary_(DE-326)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)"><i>Indakh</i></a> (ex-<i>Thomas J. Gary</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg/25px-Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg/38px-Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg/50px-Naval_ensign_of_South_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Vietnam_Navy" title="Republic of Vietnam Navy">Republic of Vietnam Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Camp_(DE-251)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Camp (DE-251)"><i>Trần Hưng Đạo</i></a> (ex-<i>Camp</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Forster_(DE-334)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Forster (DE-334)"><i>Trần Khánh Dư</i></a> (ex-<i>Forster</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg/23px-Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg/35px-Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg/46px-Vietnam_People%27s_Navy_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_People%27s_Navy" title="Vietnam People's Navy">Vietnam People's Navy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/USS_Forster_(DE-334)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Forster (DE-334)"><i>Dai Ky</i></a> (ex-<i>Trần Khánh Dư</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <a href="/wiki/Cannon-class_destroyer_escort" title="Cannon-class destroyer escort"><i>Cannon</i> class</a></li> <li>Followed by: <a href="/wiki/Rudderow-class_destroyer_escort" title="Rudderow-class destroyer escort"><i>Rudderow</i> class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_destroyer_escorts_of_the_United_States_Navy" title="List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy">List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Shipwrecks_and_maritime_incidents_in_1975" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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Illawarra</a></i> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Jan: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Empire_ships_-_Sa_to_Sh#Empire_Sally" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Empire ships - Sa to Sh"><i>Danesh</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">29 Jan: <a href="/wiki/Jakob_Maersk_oil_spill" title="Jakob Maersk oil spill"><i>Jakob Maersk</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Mar: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Empire_ships_-_Sa_to_Sh#Empire_Seabrook" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Empire ships - Sa to Sh"><i>Red Eagle</i></a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 Apr: <a href="/wiki/MV_Spartan_Lady" title="MV Spartan Lady">MV <i>Spartan Lady</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Killen" title="USS Killen">USS <i>Killen</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">27 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Carbonero" title="USS Carbonero">USS <i>Carbonero</i></a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Bell_(DD-587)" title="USS Bell (DD-587)">USS <i>Bell</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 Jun: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">USS <i>Moore</i></a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">19 Jul: <a href="/wiki/MV_Herma_A" title="MV Herma A"><i>Herma A</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_Mona_Island" title="USS Mona Island">USS <i>Mona Island</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">30 Aug: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_destroyer_Otvazhny_(1964)" title="Soviet destroyer Otvazhny (1964)"><i>Otvazhny</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Nov: <a href="/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald" title="SS Edmund Fitzgerald"><i>Edmund Fitzgerald</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Dec: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Empire_ships_(Th%E2%80%93Ty)#Empire_Tintagel" title="List of Empire ships (Th–Ty)"><i>Kim Hua Li</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">30 Dec: <a href="/wiki/MS_Berge_Istra" title="MS Berge Istra"><i>Berge Istra</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <i><a href="/wiki/USS_Nicholson_(DD-442)" title="USS Nicholson (DD-442)">Aviere</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/USS_Peoria_(PF-67)" title="USS Peoria (PF-67)">Antonio Maceo</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">9 Jan: <a href="/wiki/MV_Transcontainer_I" title="MV Transcontainer I"><i>Transcontainer I</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2 Feb: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_helicopter_carrier_Moskva" title="Soviet helicopter carrier Moskva"><i>Moskva</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">12 May: <a href="/wiki/Mayaguez_incident" title="Mayaguez incident"><i>Mayaguez</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 May: <a href="/wiki/Mayaguez_incident" title="Mayaguez incident"><i>Mayaguez</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Jul: <a href="/wiki/MV_Kurdistan" title="MV Kurdistan"><i>Frank D. Moores</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Aug: <a href="/wiki/ARA_Sant%C3%ADsima_Trinidad_(D-2)" title="ARA Santísima Trinidad (D-2)">ARA <i>Santísima Trinidad</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Sep: <a href="/wiki/Waage_Drill_II_diving_accident" title="Waage Drill II diving accident"><i>Waage Drill II</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Oct: <a href="/wiki/NOAAS_Miller_Freeman_(R_223)" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223)">NOAAS <i>Miller Freeman</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Nov: <a href="/wiki/USS_Belknap_(CG-26)" title="USS Belknap (CG-26)">USS <i>Belknap</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CV-67)" title="USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)">USS <i>John F. Kennedy</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Nov: <a href="/wiki/Soviet_frigate_Storozhevoy" title="Soviet frigate Storozhevoy"><i>Storozhevoy</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1974" title="List of shipwrecks in 1974">1974</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1974" title="List of shipwrecks in 1974"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/12px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/18px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/24px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1976" title="List of shipwrecks in 1976"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/12px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/18px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/24px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1976" title="List of shipwrecks in 1976">1976</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&oldid=1228210410">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Moore&oldid=1228210410</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Edsall-class_destroyer_escorts" title="Category:Edsall-class destroyer escorts">Edsall-class destroyer escorts</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Ships_built_in_Houston" title="Category:Ships built in Houston">Ships built in Houston</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1942_ships" title="Category:1942 ships">1942 ships</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:World_War_II_frigates_and_destroyer_escorts_of_the_United_States" title="Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States">World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Shipwrecks_of_the_Virginia_coast" title="Category:Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast">Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Ships_sunk_as_targets" title="Category:Ships sunk as targets">Ships sunk as targets</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Maritime_incidents_in_1975" title="Category:Maritime incidents in 1975">Maritime incidents in 1975</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_dmy_dates_from_July_2021" title="Category:Use dmy dates from July 2021">Use dmy dates from July 2021</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_the_Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Commons_category_link_is_on_Wikidata" title="Category:Commons category link is on Wikidata">Commons category link is on Wikidata</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 10 June 2024, at 01:02<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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