Photos and the story

Dyson

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-572
Builder	Consolidated Steel, Orange
Launched	1942-04-15
Commissioned	1942-12-30
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Transferred to West Germany, 17 February 1960
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Gano, Roy Alexander Captain, 30 December 1942 – 12 March 1944 Babb, James Dunnington Captain, 12 March 1944 – 14 September 1944 Ruff, Lawrence Ernest Captain, 14 September 1944 – 24 September 1945 Healey, Vincent Patrick Captain from 1945 Healey, Vincent Patrick Captain, 24 September 1945 – 11 October 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.

Dyson was a Fletcher-class destroyer, DD-572. Consolidated Steel at Orange laid her down on 25 June 1941, launched her on 15 April 1942, and commissioned her on 30 December 1942. Commander Roy Alexander Gano was her captain.

On the night of 1–2 November 1943 she was in Captain Arleigh A. Burke's van off Empress Augusta Bay. His flag was in Charles Ausburne. Stanly and Claxton were the other two ships with her. Merrill's cruisers, Montpelier, Cleveland, Columbia, and Denver, sank Sendai. That fire is not credited to one ship.

Myoko cut the bow off Hatsukaze, and American destroyers finished the wreck. Dyson was not one of the ships named for that fire. She was not hit, and she was not sunk.

She was decommissioned on 31 March 1947 and transferred to West Germany on 17 February 1960.

The pictures on this page are the originals.