USS Reybold
{{short description|Cannon-class destroyer escort}}
{{for|the destroyer escort originally ordered as USS Reybold but transferred to the Royal Navy before completion|HMS Goodall (K479)}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = USS Reybold (DE-177) underway off New York City (USA) on 13 October 1943 (NH 91551).jpg | Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Ship country = United States | Ship flag = {{USN flag|1944}} | Ship name = USS Reybold | Ship namesake = John Keane Reybold | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey | Ship laid down = 3 May 1943 | Ship launched = 22 August 1943 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 29 September 1943 | Ship decommissioned = 15 August 1944 | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship struck = 20 July 1953 | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified = | Ship homeport = | Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship honors = | Ship fate = *Leased to Brazil, 15 August 1944
| Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship career | Ship country = Brazil | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Brazil|1968}} | Ship name = Bracuí | Ship namesake = | Ship acquired = 15 August 1944 | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = 1972 | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship struck = | Ship reclassified = | Ship homeport = | Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship fate = Scrapped | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = {{sclass|Cannon|destroyer escort}} | Ship displacement = *{{convert|1240|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
| Ship length = *{{convert|306|ft|m|abbr=on}} o/a
| Ship beam = {{convert|36|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft = {{convert|11|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth = | Ship hold depth = | Ship propulsion = 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, {{convert|6000|shp|0|abbr=on}}, 2 screws | Ship speed = {{convert|21|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range = {{convert|10800|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|12|kn|abbr=on}} | Ship complement = 15 officers and 201 enlisted | Ship armament = *3 × single Mk.22 3-inch/50-caliber guns
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USS Reybold (DE-177) was a {{sclass|Cannon|destroyer escort}} built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
Reybold was named in honor of John Keane Reybold who was killed by friendly fire during a convoy run. The ship was laid down on 3 May 1943 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Port Newark, New Jersey; launched on 22 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. John K. Reybold, widow of Lt. Comdr. John K. Reybold; and commissioned on 29 September 1943.
World War II Atlantic Ocean operations
Following shakedown off Bermuda, Reybold operated briefly under ComSubLant, then completed an escort run from Rhode Island to the Panama Canal Zone. She then steamed to Norfolk, Virginia, before the end of 1943 and, on 2 January 1944, she sailed south to join the U.S. 4th Fleet. On the 15th, she arrived at Recife, Brazil, whence she escorted ships to Trinidad and back until July, interrupting that duty only for air/sea rescue operations at the end of May. In July, she guarded the sealanes between Brazil and Gibraltar, anchoring off the latter 13–15 July and returning to Recife on the 23rd to prepare for transfer to the Brazilian Navy.{{cite DANFS|title=Reybold II (DE-177)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/reybold-ii.html|access-date=31 January 2019}}
Decommissioning
Shifting to Natal, Brazil, on 9 August, Reybold was decommissioned and transferred under the terms of lend-lease to Brazil on 15 August 1944. Renamed Baurú, she continued operations under that name throughout the remainder of World War II and the 1940s. She was returned to the custody of the United States and transferred, permanently, under the terms of the military defense aid program, to Brazil on 30 June 1953. She initially operated with the pennant number BE 4, and later with the number D18.{{Harvnb|Blackman|1962|p=24}} She continued to serve with the Brazilian Navy as Baurú until 11 July 1972.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
Citations
- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/r/reybold-ii.html}}
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References
- {{cite book|last=Blackman |first=Raymond V. B. |title= Jane's Fighting Ships 1962–63 |year=1962 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marson & Co., Ltd.|location=London }}
External links
{{Commons category|USS Reybold (DE-177)}}
- {{navsource|06/177|USS Reybold (DE-177)}}
- [http://www.naviosbrasileiros.com.br/ngb/B/B060/B060.htm NGB – Contratorpedeiro de Escolta/Aviso Oceânico "Bracuí" – Be 3/U-31/D-23] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628124339/http://www.naviosbrasileiros.com.br/ngb/B/B060/B060.htm |date=28 June 2012 }}
{{Cannon class destroyer escort}}
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Category:Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
Category:Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey
Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Category:Bertioga-class destroyer escorts
Category:Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the Brazilian Navy