Pacific ships

USN · DD

Afloat

Fletcher-class destroyer.

ClassFletcher class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-511
BuilderBath Iron Works
Launched1942-10-11
Commissioned1942-12-22
FateAfloat. Survived the war. Sold for scrap, 2 January 1974
Armament (class)Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command

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 Foote (DD-511) underway at sea, circa in 1945.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Command

Battle of Empress Augusta Bay

1943-11-02 · torpedoed; steering wrecked; not sunk

Shot and shell

Taken · damagedfrom IJN Sendai
The usual account is that a torpedo from Sendai's spread hit Foote and wrecked her steering. She was not sunk.