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The Sullivans

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-537
Launched	1943-04-04
Commissioned	1943-09-30
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Donated to Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo, New York
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Gentry, Kenneth McLoud Captain, 30 September 1943 – 22 July 1944 Baum, Ralph Jacob Captain, 22 July 1944 – 19 September 1945 Dupzyk, Robert Richard Captain from 19 September 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.

USS The Sullivans (DD-537) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 4 April 1943 and commissioned on 30 September 1943.

Kenneth McLoud Gentry was her captain from the day she was commissioned until 22 July 1944. On that date Ralph Jacob Baum took command and remained captain until 19 September 1945.

Robert Richard Dupzyk became captain on 19 September 1945. The destroyer came through the war and survived.

She was donated to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York. A later ship, USS The Sullivans (DDG-68), carries the same name on a separate hull.

The pictures on this page are the originals.