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{{Short description|Early Cold War-era U.S. destroyer escort}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=''Chambers''
|Ship namesake=Russell Franklyn Chambers
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|Ship builder=[[Brown Shipbuilding]], [[Houston]], Texas
|Ship laid down=28 May 1943
|Ship launched=17 August 1943
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|Ship commissioned=22 November 1943
|Ship decommissioned=20 June 1960
|Ship reclassified=DER-391, 28 October 1954
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|Ship struck= 1 March 1975
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|Ship fate=Sold for scrapping 24 September 1975
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard-1953}}
|Ship name=USCGC ''Chambers'' WDE-491
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|Ship commissioned= 11 June 1952
|Ship decommissioned= 30 July 1954
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|Ship fate=Returned to USN, 30 July 1954
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|Ship class={{sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}}
|Ship displacement=*1,253 tons standard
*1,590 tons full load
|Ship length=306 feet (93.27 m)
|Ship beam=36.58 feet (11.15 m)
|Ship draft=10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)
|Ship propulsion=*4 [[Fairbanks-Morse|FM]] [[diesel engine]]s,
*4 diesel-[[Engine-generator|generator]]s,
*6,000 shp (4.5 MW),
*2 screws
|Ship speed=21 [[knot (unit)|knot]]s (39 km/h)
|Ship range=*9,100 [[nautical mile|nmi.]] at 12 knots
*(17,000 km at 22 km/h)
|Ship complement=8 officers, 201 enlisted
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'''USS ''Chambers'' (DE-391)''' was an {{sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}} in service with the [[United States Navy]] from 1943 to 1946 and from 1955 to 1960. From 1952 to 1954, she was loaned to the [[United States Coast Guard]] where she served as USCGC ''Chambers'' (WDE-491). She was finally scrapped in 1975.

==Namesake==
Russell Franklyn Chambers was born on 10 June 1914 in [[La Habra, California]]. He was appointed aviation cadet, [[United States Naval Reserve]] on 5 December 1938 and commissioned [[Ensign (rank)|Ensign]] on 4 November 1939. On duty in the [[Philippines]] when the United States entered World War II, he was reported missing in action 27 December 1941 after an engagement with [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] aircraft over [[Jolo]]. He was officially declared dead 28 December 1942.

==History==
''Chambers'' was launched 17 August 1943 by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston]], Texas; sponsored by Mrs. R. F. Chambers; commissioned 22 November 1943 and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.

===World War II===
After a period as [[training ship]] for prospective escort vessel crews, ''Chambers'' cleared [[Norfolk, Virginia]], 13 February 1944 on the first of eight [[convoy]] escort crossings to [[North Africa]]n ports from Norfolk, Virginia, and [[New York City]]. Steadfast to her important duty of guarding the men and materiel vital to the success of operations in the [[Europe]]an theater, ''Chambers'' defied the hazards of the sea and the enemy to bring her charges safely to port.

On 8 July 1945 ''Chambers'' sailed from New York for [[Pearl Harbor]], where she arrived 16 August to transport homeward bound servicemen to [[San Pedro, California]]. She put out to sea from San Pedro for the east coast 11 September, and on 22 April 1946, was decommissioned and placed in reserve at [[Green Cove Springs, Florida]].

===Cold War===
====U.S. Coast Guard service====
Loaned to the [[United States Treasury Department]], ''Chambers'' was commissioned as a Coast Guard ship 11 June 1952, and redesignated WDE-491. Operating from [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]], she served on Atlantic weather patrols and made several cruises to [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] until 30 July 1954, when the Coast Guard decommissioned her and returned her to the Navy. She also participated in the International Iceberg patrol.

====Radar picket ship====
Returned to reserve status, ''Chambers'' was reclassified DER-391 on 28 October 1954, and began conversion to a [[radar picket]] escort vessel. ''Chambers'' was recommissioned 1 June 1955 for radar picket duty out of [[Newport, Rhode Island]] She was assigned to the [[DEW Line|Atlantic Barrier Patrol]] in June 1956, with which she operated until placed out of commission in reserve 20 June 1960, at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].

===Final disposition and fate===
On 1 March 1975 she was struck from the [[Navy list]], and was sold for scrap on 24 September 1975.

== References ==
{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/chambers.html}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|USS Chambers (DE-391)}}
* {{navsource|06/391}}

{{Edsall class destroyer escort}}

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[[Category:Edsall-class destroyer escorts]]
[[Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States]]
[[Category:Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the United States Coast Guard]]
[[Category:Ships built in Houston]]
[[Category:1943 ships]]

USS Chambers - Revision history

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