USS Stribling (DD-867)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Stribling.
USS Stribling was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship named for Admiral Cornelius Kincheloe Stribling.
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United States | |
Name | USS Stribling |
Namesake | Cornelius Stribling |
Builder | Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, New York City |
Laid down | 15 January 1945 |
Launched | 8 June 1945 |
Commissioned | 29 September 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1976 |
Stricken | 1 July 1976 |
Honors and awards | 2 battle stars (Vietnam) |
Fate | Sunk as target, 27 July 1980 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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Stribling was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 15 January 1945, launched on 8 June 1945 by Mrs. W. Hunter Powell and commissioned on 29 September 1945.