USS Formoe
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Formoe (DE-509) |
| Namesake | Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class Clarence Melvin Formoe (1909-1941) |
| Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newark, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 3 January 1944 |
| Launched | 2 April 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. A. L. Bolshazy |
| Commissioned | 5 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 27 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 27 June 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 7 February 1957 |
| Fate | Loaned to Portugal 7 February 1957 |
| Stricken | 1 October 1968 |
| Fate | Sold to Portugal December 1968 |
| Portugal | |
| Name | NRP Diogo-Cão (F 333) |
| Namesake | Diogo Cão, 15th-century Portuguese explorer |
| Acquired |
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| Decommissioned | 19 November 1968 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) overall |
| Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) maximum |
| Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range | 6,000 nm @ 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
| Armament | 2-5 in (130 mm), 4 (2 × 2) 40 mm AA, 10-20 mm guns AA, 3-21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 1 Hedgehog, 8 depth charge projectors, 2 depth charge tracks |
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USS Formoe (DE-509) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1957. She was then transferred to Portugal, where she served as NRP Diogo-Cão (F-333) until 1968. She was scrapped in 1970.