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|Ship caption=
!align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career
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!align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| [[Image:US Naval Jack.svg|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
{{Infobox Ship Career
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|Hide header=
|Ordered:
|Ship country=
|1942
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1946}}
|-
|Ship name=USS ''Jordan''
|Laid down:
|Ship namesake= Julian Bethune Jordan
|[[5 June]] [[1943]]
|Ship ordered= 1942
|-
|Ship builder= [[Charleston Navy Yard]], [[North Charleston, South Carolina]]
|Launched:
|[[23Ship August]]laid down= 5 June 1943
|Ship launched= 23 August 1943
|-
|Ship acquired=
|Commissioned:
|[[Ship commissioned= 17 December]] 1943
|Ship decommissioned= 19 December 1945
|-
|Ship in service=
|Decommissioned:
|Ship out of service=
|[[19 December]] [[1945]]
|Ship struck= 8 January 1946
|-
|Ship renamed=
|Struck:
|Ship reclassified=
|[[8 January]] [[1946]]
|Ship homeport=
|-
|Ship motto=
|Fate:
|Ship nickname=
|Sold for scrap July 1947
|Ship honors=4 [[battle star]]s (World War II)
|-
|Ship fate= Sold for scrap, July 1947
!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"|General characteristics
|Ship status=
|-
|Ship notes=
|Displacement:
}}
|1400 tons standard<br>1740 tons full load
{{Infobox Ship Characteristics
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|Length:
|Header caption=
|306 ft (93 m)
|Ship class= {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}}
|-
|Ship displacement={{convert|1400|LT|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} light<br/>{{convert|1740|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
|Beam:
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|37 ft (11.3 m)
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|Ship draft= {{convert|9|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} standard<br/>{{convert|11|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}} full load
|Draft:
|Ship depth=
|9.5 ft (4.1 m) standard<br>11.25 ft full load
|Ship hold depth=
|-
|Ship propulsion=2 × boilers<br/>[[General Electric]] [[turbo-electric]] drive<br/>{{convert|12000|shp|MW|abbr=on}}<br/>2 × solid manganese-bronze {{convert|3600|lb|abbr=on}} 3-bladed propellers, {{convert|8|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} diameter, {{convert|7|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} pitch<br/>2 × rudders<br/>359 tons fuel oil
|Propulsion:
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|2 [[boiler]]s, General Electric Turbo-electric drive<br>2 solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed [[propeller]]s, {{convert|8.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} diameter, {{convert|7|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} pitch<br>12,000 hp (8.9 MW)<br>2 [[rudder]]s
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|-
|Ship complement=15 officers, 198 men
|Speed:
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|23 knots (43 km/h)
|Ship armor=
|-
|Ship notes=
|Range:
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|359 tons oil<br>{{convert|3700|nmi|km}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h}}<br>{{convert|6000|nmi|km}} at {{convert|12|kn|km/h}}
|-
|Complement:
|15 officers, 198 men
|-
|Armament:
|3 x 3 in/50 [[caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|cal.]] guns (76.2 mm)<br>4 x 1.1 in/75 (28 mm) [[Anti-Aircraft]] guns (1x4)<br>8 x 20 mm<br>3 x 21 in (533 mm) [[torpedo tube]]s (1x3)<br>1 x [[hedgehog (weapon)|hedgehog]] projector<br>8 x depth charge projectors (K-guns)<br>2 x [[depth charge]] tracks
|}
'''USS ''Jordan'' (DE-204)''', a [[Buckley class destroyer escort|''Buckley''-class]] [[destroyer escort]] of the [[United States Navy]], was named in honor of [[Lieutenant]] [[Julian Bethune Jordan]] (1904-1941), who was killed in action aboard the [[{{USS |Oklahoma (|BB-37)|USS ''Oklahoma'']]6}} during the [[Japan]]ese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] [[on 7 December]] 1941.
 
''Jordan'' was laid down [[on 5 June]] [[1943]] by the [[Charleston Navy Yard]]; launched [[on 23 August]] 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Lucy H. Jordan, widow of Lieutenant Jordan; commissioned [[on 17 December]] 1943, [[Lieutenant Commander]] F. C. Billing in command.
 
==Service history==
After shakedown, ''Jordan'' arrived [[New York]] in mid-March 1944 for duty as [[convoy]] escort. She sailed [[17 April]] with a convoy bound for [[Gibraltar]], arriving there [[1 May]] with transports carrying vital cargo for the operations in the [[Mediterranean]] area. She returned to New York later that month and made one more European voyage in June before beginning duty as a training ship. During July and August, she engaged in training exercises at [[Quonset Point, Rhode Island]], and arrived [[Port Everglades, Florida]], [[17 September]] to commence experimental exercises in that area.
After shakedown, ''Jordan'' arrived [[New York]] in mid-March 1944 for duty as [[convoy]] escort. She sailed on 17 April with a convoy bound for [[Gibraltar]], arriving there on 1 May with transports carrying vital cargo for the operations in the [[Mediterranean]] area. She returned to New York later that month and made one more European voyage in June before beginning duty as a training ship. During July and August, she engaged in training exercises at [[Quonset Point, Rhode Island]], and arrived [[Port Everglades, Florida]], on 17 September to commence experimental exercises in that area.
 
After a yard period at [[Charleston, South Carolina]], ''Jordan'' resumed sound experiments out of Port Everglades in early 1945. During May, she was deployed on another cruise to the Mediterranean as convoy escort, returning to New York [[on 10 June]]. She engaged in [[submarine]] operations out of [[New London, Connecticut]], and training exercises in [[Cuba]], throughout the summer. It was through these experiments that new technological advancements in [[anti-submarine warfare]] were adopted, leading to a more powerful navy and a shorter war.
 
While on a training mission [[on 18 September]], ''Jordan'' collided with a [[merchant vessel]], SS ''John Sherman'', necessitating immediate repairs. She arrived Charleston [[on 4 October]] and remained there until she decommissioned [[on 19 December]] 1945. The ship was scrapped in 1947.
 
== References ==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/j4/jordan.htm|http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/escorts/de204.txt}}
{{DANFS}}
 
==External links==
* {{navsource|06/204|USS Jordan}}
 
== External links ==
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/204.htm navsource.org: USS ''Jordan'']
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/escorts/de204.txt hazegray.org: USS ''Jordan'']
 
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