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USS Cowie
Gleaves-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Cowie (DD-632) (later DMS-39), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Thomas Jefferson Cowie.
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Name | Cowie |
Namesake | Thomas Jefferson Cowie |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard |
Laid down | 18 March 1941 |
Launched | 27 September 1941 |
Commissioned | 1 June 1942 |
Identification | DD-632 |
Reclassified | DMS-39, 30 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 27 April 1947 |
Stricken | 1 December 1970 |
Fate | Sold 22 February 1972 and broken up for scrap |
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Class and type | Gleaves-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,630 tons |
Length | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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Speed | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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Cowie was launched on 27 September 1941 Liberty Fleet Day at the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. C. R. Robinson, daughter of Rear Admiral Cowie and wife of Captain C. R. Robinson. The ship was commissioned on 1 June 1942 and reported to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.