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Bataan

Afloat

Tribal-class destroyer. She reached Tokyo on 31 August 1945 and was there for the signing on Missouri. She did not fight a battle in this war.

Class	Tribal class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	I91
Fate	Afloat. Commissioned 25 May 1945, too late for a surface fight. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender on 2 September 1945. Sold for scrap in 1958.
Armament (class)	Tribal. Four twin 4.7-inch mounts and two funnels.
Command	Burrell, Henry Mackay Captain from 25 May 1945

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Pte. M.V. Gulliver, Australian armed forces. HMAS Bataan (I91) anchored off Manila in 1945.JPG. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The pictures on this page are the originals.

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