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USS Fletcher (DD-445)

   Fletcher class destroyer is a class destroyers were built US Navy in the Second World War. Class ships are designed in 1939 by the non-satisfaction on the style of the flagship destroyer Porter and Somers class lead. Some units in the class has continued to serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War

 

Class and type: Fletcher Class Destroyer

Type: destroyer

Tonnage Displacement: 2,050 tons (standard) 

                  2,500 tons (full load)

Length: 376.5 ft (114.8 m)

Beam: 39.5 m (129 ft 7 in)

Draught: 17.5 m (57 ft 5 in)

Propulsion:    2 x steam turbine gearbox

4 × oil-fired water tube boilers

2 x axis

60,000 shp (45,000 kW)

Speed: 36.5 knots (67.6 km / h; 42.0 mph)

Range: 5,500 NMI (10 190km; 6,330 nmi)

             at a speed of 15 knots (28 km / h; 17 mph)

Shipper Full: 329 officers and sailors

Armed:

5 × 5 cannon in (130 mm) / 38 caliber (5 × 1);

4 × automatic cannon automatic cannon 1.1 in (28 mm) (1 × 4);

6-10 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns;

7-10 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns;

10 × Mark 15 torpedo tubes 21 in (530 mm) (2 × 5);

6 × catapults and 2 × K-gun depth charge rails

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