USS Reybold

Career
Laid down:	3 May 1943
Launched:	22 August 1943
Commissioned:	29 September 1943
Battle Stars:	Not known
Decommissioned:	15 August 1944
Struck:	20 July 1953
Fate:	Transferred to Brazil, 15 August 1944
General characteristics
Class:	Cannon class destroyer escort
Type:	DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement:	1,240 tons (std) 1,620 tons (full)
Dimensions:	306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 11' 8" (max)
Range:	10,800 nm @ 12 knots
Speed:	21 knots
Complement:	15 / 201
Armament:	3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Propulsion:	4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws

USS Reybold (DE-177) was a Cannon class destroyer escort built for the U.S. 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 as Reybold (DE-177) on 22 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. John K. Reybold, widow of Lt. Comdr. John K. Reybold; and commissioned on 29 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. A. B. Bradley, Jr., in command.

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 23d to prepare for transfer to the Brazilian Navy.

Post-War 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 served in the Brazilian Navy as Baurú (D-18) until 1973.

She is preserved at the "Centro Cultural da Marinha" (Naval Cultural Center) in Rio de Janeiro by the Brazilian Navy.

References

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

See also

• List of United States Navy ships
• World War II
• Destroyer escort

External links

• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
• NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive - USS Reybold (DE-177)