Pacific ships

USN · DD

Afloat

Fletcher-class destroyer. Boston Navy Yard. Commissioned 8 June 1943. Off Formosa she stayed with the damaged heavy cruiser Canberra (CA-70). In August 1945 she took the ship Tachibana Maru as a prize. Twelve battle stars.

ClassFletcher class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-582
BuilderBoston Navy Yard
Launched1942-07-18
Commissioned1943-06-08
FateAfloat. Survived the war. Loaned to Greece as Aspis on 15 September 1959. Sold outright in 1977. Stricken in 1991 and scrapped in 1997.
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 photo L45-57.07.01. USS Conner (DD-582) underway, circa in 1943 (L45-57.07.01).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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