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Callaghan

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-792
Launched	1943-08-01
Commissioned	1943-11-27
Fate	Sunk. 28 July 1945
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Johnson, F. J. Captain from 27 November 1943

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.

USS Callaghan (DD-792) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 1 August 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 27 November 1943. F. J. Johnson was her captain from that day.

Her battle was Okinawa, dated 1 April 1945. From that date the campaign is the wartime service given for the ship. Callaghan was sunk on 28 July 1945. That loss closed her Okinawa service and ended the hull.

From her launch on 1 August 1943 to her sinking on 28 July 1945, she had a little under two years as a ship. Commissioned service ran from 27 November 1943, with F. J. Johnson in command from the start.

The pictures on this page are the originals.