USN · DD
Ringgold
Photos and infoFletcher-class destroyer. Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny. Commissioned 30 December 1942. At Tarawa she and Dashiell went into Betio lagoon. Shore batteries hit her and she grounded for three days. She was not sunk. Ten battle stars.
| Class | Fletcher class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | DD-500 |
| Builder | Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny |
| Launched | 1942-11-11 |
| Commissioned | 1942-12-30 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. Transferred to West Germany as Zerstörer 2 on 14 July 1959. The United States struck her in 1974. In 1981 she went to Greece as a spare-parts hulk named Kimon. |
| 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. USS Ringgold (DD-500) underway in the Atlantic Ocean, circa in May 1943 (19-N-44875).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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