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Leutze

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-481
Launched	1942-10-29
Commissioned	1944-03-04
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Sold for scrap, 17 June 1947
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Robbins, B. A. Captain from 4 March 1944

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 Leutze (DD-481) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was a fleet destroyer, and her career belongs to the wartime Navy.

The ship was launched on 29 October 1942. Well over a year lay between that day and the date she joined the fleet. Leutze was commissioned on 4 March 1944. B. A. Robbins was her captain from that day.

On 25 October 1944 she was in the Battle of Surigao Strait, on the left flank. That action is the fight named for her in the wartime record of this hull. She came through the war. The hull was still afloat when the fighting ended. On 17 June 1947 the Navy sold Leutze for scrap. That sale closed the life of DD-481.

The pictures on this page are the originals.