USS Kearny
Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy, in service from 1940 to 1946 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Kearny (DD-432), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was a United States Navy warship during World War II. She was noted for being torpedoed by a German U-boat in October 1941, before the U.S. had entered the war. She survived that attack, and later served in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
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Name | Kearny |
Namesake | Lawrence Kearny |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 1 March 1939 |
Launched | 9 March 1940 |
Commissioned | 13 September 1940 |
Decommissioned | 7 March 1946 |
Stricken | 1 June 1971 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 6 October 1972 |
General characteristics | |
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 (69.3 km/h; 43.0 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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She was named for Commodore Lawrence Kearny (1789–1868).