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USS Runels (DE 793 / APD 85)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - J - W

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal

Specifications:
Class: Buckley
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
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
Complement: 15 / 198

Runels (DE 793) Building and Operational Data:

07 June 1943: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.

04 September 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. D. S. Runels, widow of Ensign Runels

03 January 1944: Commissioned, Lcdr. H. G. Claudius in command

24 January 1945: Reclassified and converted APD 85 at New York

10 February 1947: Decommissioned at Mayport, Fla. after 3 years and 1¼ months of service

01 June 1960: Struck from the NVR

10 July 1961: Sold for scrapping to the Portsmouth Salvage Co., Portsmouth, Va.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
Runels 0679302	481k	two undated wartime images (U.S. Navy photo #CP-DE-793 19-N-67527 and #CP-DE-790 19-N-67525 from the National Archives and Records Administration, courtesy of Chris Wright)		Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.
Runels 0679303	374k			Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.

View the USS Runels (DE 793 / APD 85) DANFS history entry
located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Runels' Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 03 Jan. 1944 - 28 Feb. 1945	Lcdr. Herbert Gordon Claudius, USNR (comm.)
2.) 28 Feb. 1945 - 26 Sep. 1945	Lt. Barnett Hamlin, USNR
3.) 26 Sep. 1945 - 20 Jan. 1947	Lcdr. Charles Paul Sheppard, USNR
4.) 20 Jan. 1947 - 07 Feb. 1947	Lt.(jg) Jack Parker Strickland (decomm.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Navsource APD Pages, USS Runels (APD 85)
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
Tin Can Sailors
The Destroyer History Foundation

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