Dravo's Wilmington shipyard was the home to wartime production of Destroyer Escorts of the Cannon Class. Click any photo for a larger image

DE-99 USS Cannon

• Cannon Class Destroyer Escort:
• Displacement: 1,700 tons
• Length: 308'
• Beam: 36'8"
• Draft: 11'8"
• Speed: 21 knots
• Armament: 3 3"/50 DP, 1x2 40mm, 4x1 40mm, 10 20mm, 1 hedgehog, 2 depth charge tracks, 8 "K" gun projectors, 1x3 21" torpedo tubes
• Complement: 15 officers, 201 enlisted
• Diesel-electric engines with tandem-motor drive, 6,000 HP.
• Built at Dravo Corp., Wilmington, Del., and commissioned 26 September 1943
• Transferred to Brazil (Baependi) 19 December 1944
• Broken up for scrap in 1974

A model of the USS Cannon is available for you to build. We are not associated with this vendor at all, but we do think it is cool to be able to buy a model of a Wilmington built ship. Click here for off-site link to buy the USS Cannon model.

Click here for an offsite link to a record of Dravo shipbuilding during WWII.

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