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Ingraham

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ClassAllen M. Sumner class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-694
BuilderFederal Shipbuilding, Kearny
Launched1944-01-16
Commissioned1944-03-10
FateAfloat. Survived the kamikaze hit of 4 May 1945, in which 15 were killed. Sold to Greece in 1971; sunk as a target in 2001. This is DD-694, not the earlier Ingraham (DD-444) lost in 1942.
Armament (class)Three twin 5-inch mounts and two funnels, on the Fletcher hull.
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.

Ingraham
USS Ingraham (DD-694) off New York City on 9 March 1944, the day before she was commissioned. U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photograph 19-N-62588, edited by the Destroyer History Foundation. Wikimedia Commons File:USS Ingraham (DD-694) off New York City on 9 March 1944 (19-N-62588).jpg. Public domain.

USS Ingraham (DD-694) was launched by Federal Shipbuilding at Kearny on 16 January 1944 and commissioned on 10 March 1944. She is the later Ingraham, not the destroyer of the same name that was rammed in fog in 1942. After shakedown at Bermuda she reached Eniwetok on 31 October 1944.

She screened the carriers in the Luzon strikes in November 1944, sank a Japanese cargo ship off Mindoro with the destroyer Barton on 15 December, and bombarded the shore at Lingayen Gulf from 6 January 1945. After repairs at Saipan she joined the invasion fleet at Iwo Jima on 23 February 1945 and gave accurate call fire for the Marines.

On 21 March 1945 she took up radar picket duty for the Okinawa operation. On 4 May 1945 she came under a concerted air attack and shot down four planes before a fifth crashed into her above the waterline on the port side. Its bomb exploded in the generator room. She had one gun working and 51 casualties, among them 15 dead. She retired to Hunters Point, California, for repairs, and was still there when the war ended.

Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).

The pictures on this page are the originals.