USN · DD
SunkFletcher-class destroyer. Charleston Navy Yard. Commissioned 4 November 1943. On 16 June 1945 a torpedo bomber hit her on picket duty off Okinawa. She sank. 152 men were killed.
| Class | Fletcher class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | DD-591 |
| Builder | Charleston Navy Yard |
| Launched | 1943-04-07 |
| Commissioned | 1943-11-04 |
| Fate | Sunk. off Okinawa on 16 June 1945. A torpedo set off a magazine and the plane crashed into her. 152 men were killed. Struck 11 July 1945. The hulk was given to the Ryukyu government in 1957. |
| 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.
Photographed by Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina (USA). USS Twiggs (DD-591) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 7 December 1944 (80-G-215535).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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