USN · DD
Wadleigh
Photos and infoFletcher-class destroyer. Bath Iron Works. Commissioned 19 October 1943. A mine off the Palaus on 16 September 1944 killed three men. She was not sunk. She was in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. Chile took her in 1962.
| Class | Fletcher class |
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| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | DD-689 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Launched | 1943-08-07 |
| Commissioned | 1943-10-19 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. Mined off the Palaus on 16 September 1944 and not sunk. Decommissioned 28 June 1962. Transferred to Chile as Blanco Encalada on 26 July 1962. Sunk as a target on 28 September 1991. |
| 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 photo NH 98050. USS Barry (DD-933) and USS Wadleigh (DD-689) underway off Rhodes, Greece, in June 1958 (NH 98050).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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