Mitscher class

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Mitscher class
USS Wilkinson (DL-5) at sea, late 1950s
USS Wilkinson (DL-5) at sea, late 1950s
Overview
Type destroyer
units 4th
Order August 3, 1948
Namesake Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher
1. Period of service flag
period of service

1953-1978

Whereabouts Wrecked
Technical specifications
displacement

3331-4857  tons

length

151 meters

width

15 meters

Draft

8 meters

crew

403 officers and men

drive

2 propellers, driven by 4 steam boilers; 80,000  wave horsepower

speed

30 knots

Range

4500  nautical miles at 20 knots

Armament

2 × 127 mm
4 × 76 mm
8 × 20 mm
4 × torpedo launchers
2 × anti-ship rocket launchers
1 × depth charges

The Mitscher class was a class of four experimental destroyers commissioned by the United States Navy shortly after the end of World War II . Designed to be larger than any previous destroyer, the ships would have been the first post-war destroyer class if they had not been reclassified as Flotilla Command Destroyers (DL) during their construction . Of the class launched between 1953 and 1954, two units remained in service until 1969 and were sold for scrapping in the 1970s. The other two units were converted into guided missile destroyers and remained in service until 1978. They were sold for scrapping in 1980.

description

All four Mitscher-class ships were ordered on August 3, 1948 and named after well-known American admirals of World War II. They displace a minimum of 3331 tons, 3642 tons by default and 4855 tons fully loaded. They had a length of 151 meters, a width of 15 meters and a draft of 8 meters. All ships were equipped with partially different systems in order to be able to test them in use for future destroyer classes. At the beginning of the 1960s, modernization took place as part of the Class Improvement Program (CIP), with the steam boilers also being replaced on the first two ships of the class.

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