USN · DD
Boyd
Photos and infoFletcher-class destroyer. Bethlehem Steel, San Pedro. Commissioned 8 May 1943. On 8 December 1943 a shore battery at Nauru hit her while she was stopped for a raft. She was not sunk. She screened the fast carriers through 1945, served in Korea, and went to Turkey in 1969.
| Class | Fletcher class |
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| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | DD-544 |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel, San Pedro |
| Launched | 1942-10-29 |
| Commissioned | 1943-05-08 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. Decommissioned, struck, and transferred to Turkey as TCG Iskenderun (D-343) on 1 October 1969. Turkey struck her in 1981 and she was scrapped. |
| Armament (class) | Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes. |
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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.
U.S. Navy. USS Boyd (DD-544) underway at sea, circa in the 1960s.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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