USS Edsall (DD-219)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Edsall.
USS Edsall (DD-219), was a Clemson-class destroyer, the first of two United States Navy ships named after Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899). She was sunk by a combined Japanese air and sea attack, approximately 200 miles east of Christmas Island on 1 March 1942.
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Edsall in San Diego Harbor in the 1920s | |
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United States | |
Name | Edsall |
Namesake | Norman Eckley Edsall of Kentucky |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Yard number | 485 |
Laid down | 15 September 1919 |
Launched | 29 July 1920 |
Commissioned | 26 November 1920 |
Honours and awards | 250 |
Fate | Sunk by Japanese surface warships ~250 mi (402.34 km) SSE of Christmas Island, 1 March 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,190 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted; 153 in WWII. |
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