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- Code Number:
- MYNV17P14_11
- Title:
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Cannons, Destroyers, Midway Island, 1957, 1950s
- CLASS: GEARING As Built.
Displacement: 3460 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 390' 6"(oa) 40' 10" 14' 4" (Ma) Armament 6 5"/38AA (32), 12 40mm AA, 11 20mm AA, 10 21" tt.(25). Machinery:, 60,000 SHP; Westinghouse Turbines, 2 ship screws Speed: 36.8 Knots Range 4500 NM@ 20 Knots Crew: 336
Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island New York, 14/03/1945. Launched: 6/08/1945 and commissioned 5/01/1946. Completed FRAM upgrade May 1962. Decommissioned: 4/12/1973. Stricken: 1/02/1974. To Greece December 4 1973. Renamed Sachtouris. Stricken in 1993. Fate: Removed 8/04/2002 from Suda Bay, Crete to be towed to Turkey where the ship will be scrapped.
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