USS TWEEDY DE 532

USS TWEEDY DE 532
After 1951 Upgrade

"Tweedy had torpedo tubes removed in Charleston, quad 40mm installed and radar updated. We were slated for radar picket duty but ended up in Portland, Maine to try and work out a way to defend against the kamikaze"

Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Photo 4

Photos and information submitted by Robert Bellows, S 1/C, aboard April 1945 to Jan 1946

Named for Marine Lieutenant Albert William Tweedy, Jr., b. 22 March 1920,
Winnetka, IL; served in Scouting Bomber Squadron (VMSB), Midway; KIA 4 June 1942,
Battle of Midway, after he dropped a bomb on HIRYU; posthumous Navy Cross
Type: WGT
Builder: BNY
Keel laid 08/31/43
Launched 10/07/43
Commissioned 02/12/44
First CO: Lt Cdr Thomas Donald Cunningham (his second DE command)
Rescued six downed aviators from Navy flying boat in April 1945
Decommissioned 05/10/46
Underwent SCB-63, ASW Upgrade in 1951
Recommissioned 04/02/52-06/20/59
Recommissioned 10/02/61-08/01/62
Stricken 06/30/69
Target, sunk off Florida May 1970
Unit of CortDiv 63

Webmaster note: DANFS notes TWEEDY was a reserve training ship after being decommissioned 1 August 1962 and continued in that capacity until 1969. I interpret that as meaning she was decommissioned even though she continued as a training ship.

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. June 2006