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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSEdgar G. Chase (DE-16) |
| Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
| Laid down | 14 March 1942 |
| Launched | 26 September 1942 as HMSBurges (BDE-16) |
| Commissioned | 20 March 1943 as USSEdgar G. Chase (DE-16) |
| Decommissioned | 16 October 1945 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1945 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap on 18 March 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Evarts-classdestroyer escort |
| Displacement |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 35 ft 2 in (10.7 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) (max) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h) |
| Range | 4,150nm |
| Complement | 15 officers, 183 enlisted |
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USSEdgar G. Chase (DE-16) was anEvarts-class "short-hull"destroyer escort in the service of theUnited States Navy named afterEdgar Griffith Chase, executive officer of a destroyer lost atGuadalcanal in 1942.
Edgar G. Chase was launched on 26 September 1942 byMare Island Navy Yard,Solano County,California asHMSBurges (BDE-16); sponsored for British Lend-Lease by Mrs. Ernest H. Wichels, but retained by the USN and assigned the nameEdgar G. Chase on 19 February 1943; and commissioned 20 March 1943.
Edgar G. Chase reported to theSubmarine chaser Training Center atMiami, Florida, 4 June 1943, and for the next year trained student officers and patrolled offFlorida. After a voyage in August 1944 fromNorfolk, Virginia, toRecife, Brazil, screeningTripoli, and returning withSolomons.Edgar G. Chase sailed fromNew York on 19 September with a slow-movingconvoy forEngland. With bad weather, the passage took a month; she got back to Norfolk on 22 November.
Edgar G. Chase made three voyages as convoy escort from New York and Norfolk toOran from 19 December 1944 – 30 May 1945.
On 20 July, she returned toMiami, Florida, and her original training duty with the Small Craft Training Center.
She arrived atCharleston, South Carolina on 9 September and was decommissioned there on 16 October 1945, being sold for scrap on 18 March 1947.
 | American Campaign Medal |
 | European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal |
 | World War II Victory Medal |
This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.
