Destroyer Escorts
Classes
Evarts Class
Buckley Class
Cannon Class
Edsall Class
Rudderow Class
John C. Butler Class
APD Conversions
Presidential Unit Citations
Unit Commendations
USS Cannon (DE 99).
GENERAL INFORMATION

Length: “Long hull” 306' 0" x 300' 0"

Molded Beam: 36' 7"

Displacement: 1,240 long tons standard; 1,600 full load.

Draft: Light: 8' 3"; Deep: 11' 8";

Designed Complement: Officers, 15; Enlisted, 201.

Shaft Horsepower: 6,000

Speed: Trial: 20.9 knots; Service: 21 knots.

Screws: Two.

Rudders: Two.

Bridge: High, open.

Stack: One.

ARMAMENT

Gun battery: 3 x 3-inch/50 caliber dual purpose guns.

Initial: 2 x single 40mm Bofors.

Later: 3 x twin 40mm Bofors.

Short range: 8 x single 20mm Oerlikon.

Anti-submarine battery: 2 x depth charge tracks, 8 x depth charge projectors, 1 x Hedgehog.

In the Cannon class, the Evarts’ four General Motors diesels and electric drive were fitted to a Buckley-class hull—the Diesel Electric Tandem motor (DET) type. Larger but not more powerful than the Evarts, the DETs proved the slowest of the long-hulled types.

BUILDERS

DETs were built at Federal-Port Newark, Dravo-Wilmington, Tampa and Western Pipe.

TRANSFERS

Pennewill, Reybold, Herzog, McAnn, Cannon and Christopher were transferred to Brazil in 1944. Alger and Marts were transferred in 1945.

LOSSES

DETs in the US Navy sustained no losses during World War II.

DECORATIONS

Bronstein received the Presidential Unit Citation for anti-submarine action February–March 1944.

MUSEUM SHIP

Slater is preserved at Albany, New York.
Cannon class

Sources: Bauer and Roberts, Friedman, Whitley, DESA, Global Security, Destroyer History Foundation database.