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Ships of the Fletcher destroyer class Name Hull no. Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned / Recommissioned Decommissioned Fate Fletcher DD-445 Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey: 2 October 1941 3 May 1942 30 June 1942 15 January 1947 Sold for scrap, 22 February 1972 [2] 3 October 1949 [3] 1 October 1969 Radford DD-446
The United States Navy commissioned 175 Fletcher-class destroyers between 1942 and 1944, more than any other destroyer class, and the design was generally regarded as highly successful. The Fletcher s had a design speed of 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) and a principal armament of five 5-inch (127 mm) guns in single mounts with ten 21-inch (530 mm ...
Gearing class: Destroyer: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. [29] USS Kidd: United States Louisiana: Baton Rouge: United States: 1943 Fletcher class: Destroyer: Kamikaze [30] USS Laffey: United States South Carolina: Mount Pleasant: United States: 1943 Allen M. Sumner class: Destroyer: National Historic Landmark, survived 7 Kamikazes [31] USS LCI(L)-1091 ...
Pages in category "Fletcher-class destroyers of the United States Navy" The following 176 pages are in this category, out of 176 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
USS Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The first automotive torpedo was developed in 1866, and the torpedo boat was developed soon after. In 1898, while the Spanish–American War was being fought in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were the only threat to the American navy, and pushed for ...
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
USS Fletcher sank and destroyed enemy submarines, warships, and aircraft. Decommissioned in 1947, the destroyer was recommissioned again in 1949 as an anti-submarine warfare platform. Its final ...
The Fletcher-class destroyers were equipped with a Mark 4 or Mark 12 fire-control radar on the roof of the Mark 37 director. A SC-2 early-warning radar and a SG surface-search radar were fitted on the foremast. [6] For anti-submarine work, the ships used a QC series sonar. [7]