USS Flusser (DD-289)

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USS Flusser (DD-289)
USS Flusser in the Kiel Canal
USS Flusser in the Kiel Canal
Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States (national flag) United States
Ship type destroyer
class Clemson class
Shipyard Bethlehem Steel
Squantum Victory Yard,
Quincy, Massachusetts
Build number 369
Order October 6, 1917
Keel laying July 21, 1919
Launch November 7, 1919
Commissioning February 25, 1920 to May 1, 1930
Whereabouts Deleted October 22, 1930, sold for demolition in January 1931
Ship dimensions and crew
length
95.8 m ( Lüa )
94.32 m ( Lpp )
width 9.7 m
Draft Max. 3.1 m
displacement 1090  ts standard
 
crew 120 men
Machine system
machine 4 Yarrow boilers
2 Curtis turbines a . a gear march turbine
Machine
performance 		26,500 hp (19,491 kW)
Top
speed 		35 kn (65 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

The USS Flusser (DD-289) was a destroyer of the Clemson-class destroyer . The destroyer, completed after the First World War , was the third ship in the US Navy to be named after Charles Williamson Flusser (1832–1864). After a schooner captured in 1864, which was only used as a coal hulk, a Smith-class destroyer with the registration DD-20 had taken the name from 1909 to 1919 .

History of the ship

Most orders for the construction of Clemson-class destroyers were placed on October 6, 1917. The newly formed Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation received orders for 85 destroyers of this type. The destroyers with the IDs DD-251 to 260 were built at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy (Massachusetts) , which belongs to the group , for the following destroyers with the IDs DD-261 to 295 the new Victory Destroyer Plant was built as a special destroyer shipyard around Fore Relieve River. The following 40 destroyers DD-296 to 335 were also built in the group, but on the west coast at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco .
The Flusser began on July 21, 1919 and was launched on November 7, 1919 thanks to many prefabricated parts. The new destroyer was put into service on February 25, 1920.

Flusser with Billingsley and Dale in Venice

After commissioning, the river was assigned to Key West in Florida as its home port. From here she went on training and patrol trips in the Gulf of Mexico and along the east coast of the USA. On June 18, 1924, the destroyer left Newport (Rhode Island) with a naval association (US Naval Forces, Europe ) on an international voyage, visiting ports in 15 European countries. Among other things, it passed through the Kiel Canal ; the ports visited included Riga in Latvia in July 1924 and Venice . The visits were made with the sister ships Billingsley and Dale . The association returned to New York on July 16, 1925 .

After that, the Flusser took on her original duties as a patrol and training ship, including the further development of destroyer tactics and the training of reservists. Under the provisions of the London Conference of 1930 which was Flusser counted as surplus ships and on May 1, 1930 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania decommissioned gestellt.Dazu came) problems with the Yarrow boilers of several near Bethlehem built destroyer, their repair or replacement by new boilers appeared more expensive and complex than the commissioning of previously hardly used destroyers of the reserve.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships - Index
  2. ↑ a b c Flusser III (Destroyer No. 289)
  3. ↑ USS FLUSSER (DD-289)
  4. ^ Wickes and Clemson Classes Flush-deck destroyers

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