USSFiske (DE-143) underway inNew York Harbor on 20 October 1943.
History
United States
Name	Fiske
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corp.
Laid down	4 January 1943
Launched	14 March 1943
Commissioned	25 August 1943
Honors & awards	1 ×battle star
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk, 2 August 1944
General characteristics
Class & type	Edsall-classdestroyer escort
Displacement	1,200 long tons (1,200 t)
Length	306 ft 0 in (93.3 m)
Beam	36 ft 7 in (11.2 m)
Draft	8 ft 7 in (2.6 m)
Propulsion	4 ×Fairbanks-Morse Model 38d81/8 geareddiesel engines 6,000 shp (4.5 MW), 2 ×screws
Speed	21knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	9,100 nmi (16,900 km; 10,500 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	8officers 201enlisted
Armament	3 ×3"/50 Mk22 (1×3) 1 × twin40 mm Mk1AA 8 ×20 mm Mk 4AA 3 ×21 inch (533 mm) Mk15 Torpedo Tubes (3×1) 1 ×Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds) 8 × Mk6depth charge projectors 2 × Mk9 depth charge tracks

USSFiske (DE-143) was anEdsall-classdestroyer escort built for theUnited States Navy duringWorld War II. Named for Rear AdmiralBradley Allen Fiske, she was the first of two U.S. Naval vessels to bear the name. The vessel entered service in 1943 and served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II as part of ahunter-killeranti-submarine group. On 2 August 1944,Fiske was sunk by atorpedo fired by theGerman submarine U-804. Thirty-three of the ship's crew were killed and a further 50 were injured.

Fiske waslaid down 4 January 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation ofOrange, Texas; launched 14 March 1943; sponsored by Mrs. H. G. Chalkley; and commissioned 25 August 1943.Fiske began her service as a convoy escort with a voyage fromNorfolk toCoco Solo,Panama Canal Zone toNew York between 12 and 25 November 1943. On 3 December, the escort ship cleared Norfolk on the first of three convoy assignments from Norfolk and New York toCasablanca. During the third of these, on 20 April 1944 her convoy came under attack by Germantorpedo bombers in the westernMediterranean, but none of the enemy planes came within range ofFiske.

Completing her Casablanca runs with her return to New York on 21 May 1944Fiske joined the hunter-killer group formed aroundUSS Wake Island at Norfolk on 10 June. Five days later her group sailed to patrol across theAtlantic, putting into Casablanca to replenish 20 to 24 July. On 2 August, during a special hunt forsubmarines known to be transmitting weather information from stations in the centralAtlantic,Fiske andUSS Douglas L. Howard were detached from the task group to investigate a visual contact both had made. The contact (north of theAzores), surfacedU-804, quickly dived, but the two escorts picked it up onsonar, and began their attack approach. Suddenly,Fiske wastorpedoed on her starboard side amidships, and within 10 minutes, she broke in two and had to be abandoned. Thirty-three of her men were killed and 50 badly wounded by the explosion, but all who survived it were rescued byUSS Farquhar.

Fiske received onebattle star forWorld War II service.

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  USSFiske on 14 March 1943 ready for launching at the Consolidated Steel Corporation Shipyard in Orange, Texas.
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  USSFiske broken in two and sinking in the Atlantic Ocean on 2 August 1944 after she was torpedoed by theGerman submarine U-804. Note the men abandoning ship by walking down the side of her capsizing bow section.
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  The bow of USSFiske floating in the North Atlantic after she was broken in two by a torpedo from the German submarineU-804 on 2 August 1944. This section had to be sunk by gunfire. Photographed from an airplane based onUSS Wake Island; note the sonar dome onFiske'skeel.

• SeeList of U.S. Navy losses in World War II for other Navy ships lost in World War II.

 This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

• "Fiske".Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Archived fromthe original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved22 March 2007.
• "USSFiske (DE-143)".NavSource. Retrieved22 March 2007.

• USSFiske DE-143 atwww.desausa.org

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