# USS Doneff > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/USS_Doneff > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/USS_Doneff.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Doneff > Source revision: 1327122038 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1942 Evarts-class destroyer escort USS Doneff in February 1945 History United States Name USS Doneff Builder Philadelphia Navy Yard Launched 24 July 1942 Commissioned 10 June 1943 Decommissioned 22 December 1945 Fate Sold for scrapping, 9 January 1947 General characteristics Type Evarts-class destroyer escort Displacement 1,140 long tons (1,158 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,453 t) full Length 289 ft 5 in (88.21 m) o/a 283 ft 6 in (86.41 m) w/l Beam 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m) Draft 11 ft (3.4 m) (max) Propulsion 4 × General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW) 2 screws Speed 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) Range 4,150 nmi (7,690 km) Complement 15 officers and 183 enlisted Armament 3 × single 3"/50 Mk.22 dual purpose guns 1 × quad 1.1"/75 Mk.2 AA gun 9 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk.10 (144 rounds) 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks **USS *Doneff* (DE-49)** was an [*Evarts*-class](/source/Evarts-class_destroyer_escort) [destroyer escort](/source/Destroyer_escort) which served in the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy) in the [Pacific Theater of Operations](/source/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II). The only encounter with the [Imperial Japanese Navy](/source/Imperial_Japanese_Navy) was the sighting of one or two [A6M Zero](/source/A6M_Zero) fighters during the operational time spent in the [Aleutian Islands](/source/Aleutian_Islands). **DE-49**, originally intended for transfer to [Britain](/source/United_Kingdom), was launched on 24 July 1942 by [Philadelphia Navy Yard](/source/Philadelphia_Navy_Yard); retained by the U.S. Navy; named *Doneff* on 4 March 1943, and commissioned on 10 June 1943. ## Namesake John Lincoln Doneff was born on 12 February 1920 in [Newark, Ohio](/source/Newark%2C_Ohio) He was appointed a Midshipman from the 17th Ohio District to the [United States Naval Academy](/source/United_States_Naval_Academy) on 30 June 1939. His summer midshipman cruise (8-15 June 1940) saw him serving on the battleship [USS *New York*](/source/USS_New_York_(BB-34)). He graduated with the Class of 1943 on 19 June 1942. Commissioned [Ensign](/source/Ensign_(rank)) upon graduation, he served briefly in the Twelfth Naval District (2-7 July 1942), then joined the heavy cruiser [USS *Pensacola*](/source/USS_Pensacola_(CA-24)) on 16 July 1942. He was killed in action in the [Battle of Tassafaronga](/source/Battle_of_Tassafaronga) on 30 November 1942. ## Service history Doneff arrived at [San Diego](/source/San_Diego), California, as escort for a [convoy](/source/Convoy) on 9 September 1943. On 27 September she got underway for [Alaskan](/source/Alaska) waters and escort duty. From April 1944 she cruised between [Attu](/source/Attu_Island) and the [Kurile Islands](/source/Kurile_Islands) to report enemy contacts, forced landings of aircraft, and [weather](/source/Weather), and to guide planes and serve as rescue vessels in case of forced landings. She returned to Attu on 19 May for escort duty between Alaskan ports. Except for a period as guard ship again from 1 to 21 August 1944, she continued to escort convoys until 7 January 1945 when she sailed for [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), [California](/source/California), and overhaul. Arriving at [Pearl Harbor](/source/Pearl_Harbor) on 9 March 1945 for exercises, *Doneff* got underway on 20 March to escort a convoy to [Eniwetok](/source/Eniwetok), arriving there on 28 March. She served at [Guam](/source/Guam) on patrol and local escort duty, then made [anti-submarine](/source/Anti-submarine) patrols off [Saipan](/source/Saipan) until 6 August, when she sailed for [Okinawa](/source/Okinawa_Prefecture) as a convoy escort for the USS Indianapolis, which carried the atomic bomb that was dropped on [Hiroshima](/source/Hiroshima), returning to Saipan on 19 August. From 25 August to 23 September, she joined the [destroyer](/source/Destroyer) [*Mayrant* (DD-402)](/source/USS_Mayrant_(DD-402)) to receive the [surrender](/source/Surrender_(military)) of the [Japanese](/source/Japan) garrison on [Marcus Island](/source/Marcus_Island) and support occupation of the island by American troops. After brief overhaul at Guam, *Doneff* put to sea on 11 October, arriving at [San Pedro](/source/San_Pedro%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California) on 26 October. *Doneff* was decommissioned on 22 December 1945 at San Diego, and sold for scrapping on 9 January 1947. ## Awards American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal ## References *This article incorporates text from the [public domain](/source/Public_domain)*[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships](/source/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships)*. The entry can be found [here](https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/d/doneff.html).* ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [USS Doneff (DE-49)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:USS_Doneff_(DE-49)). - [Photo gallery](http://www.navsource.net/archives/06/049.htm) of USS *Doneff* (DE-49) at NavSource Naval History v t e Evarts-class destroyer escorts United States Navy Completed Evarts Wyffels Griswold Steele Carlson Bebas Crouter Brennan Doherty Austin Edgar G. Chase Edward C. Daly Gilmore Burden R. Hastings LeHardy Harold C. Thomas Wileman Charles R. Greer Whitman Wintle Dempsey Duffy Emery Stadtfeld Martin Sederstrom Fleming Tisdale Eisele Fair Manlove Greiner Wyman Lovering Sanders Brackett Reynolds Mitchell Donaldson Andres Decker Dobler Doneff Engstrom Seid Smartt Walter S. Brown William C. Miller Cabana Dionne Canfield Deede Elden Cloues Lake Lyman Crowley Rall Halloran Connolly Finnegan O'Toole John J. Powers Mason John M. Bermingham Cancelled Register / Creamer Ely Delbert W. Halsey Keppler Lloyd Thomas William C. Lawe Willard Keith DE-315 (Unnamed) Royal Navy Part of Captain class Completed Bayntun Bazely Berry Blackwood Burges Capel Drury Cooke Dacres Domett Foley Gardiner Garlies Goodall Goodson Gore Gould Grindall Hoste Inglis Inman Keats Kempthorne Kingsmill Lawford Lawson Pasley Loring Louis Manners Moorsom Mounsey Republic of China Navy Tai Kang (ex-Wyffels) Tai Ping (ex-Decker) Preceded by: None Followed by: Buckley class List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy List of frigates of the Royal Navy --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [USS Doneff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Doneff) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Doneff?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.