USS Benham (DD-796), Fletcher-class destroyer, Navy, Photo

Code Number:: MYNV17P03_18
Title:: USS Benham (DD-796), Fletcher-class destroyer, Pennsylvania; Namesake: Andrew E. K. Benham
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island
Laid down: 23/04/1943
Launched: 30/08/1943
Commissioned: 20/12/1943 to 18/10/1946
24/03/1951 to 30/06/1960
Struck: 15/01/1974
Fate: loaned to Peru, 15/12/1960
Fate: Scrapped 1980
Class and type: Fletcher class destroyer
Displacement: 2,050 tons
Length: 114.7 meters (376 feet 6 inches)
Beam: 39 feet, (12.1 meters)
Draft: 5.4 meters (17 feet 9 inches)
Propulsion: 60,000 shp (45 MW);
geared turbines; 2x propellers
Speed: 38 knots (70 km/h)
Range: 6,500 nautical miles at 15 knots
(12,000 km at 30 km/h)
Complement: 329
Armament: 5 5 in.(127 mm)/38 guns,
10 40 mm AA guns,
7 20 mm AA guns,
10 21 in. torpedo tubes,
6 depth charge projectors,
2 depth charge tracks
Keywords:: Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
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