USS Healy
Service
- 3 September 1943 — 11 March 1958730 days of the war
- Name
- USS Healy
- Namesake
- Howard R. Healy
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.
- Laid down
- 4 March 1943
- Launched
- 4 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 3 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 11 March 1958
- Struck
- 1 December 1974
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 12 April 1976 (1976)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,050 long tons (2,083 t)
- Length
- 114.6 m (376 ft)
- Beam
- 11.89 m (39 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 319
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Healy was a Fletcher-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Howard R. Healy. Her keel was laid at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J. on 4 March 1943. Launched on 4 July 1943, she entered service on 3 September 1943.
173 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Gleaves-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,050 long tons. She measured 114.6 m (376 ft) long with a beam of 11.9 m (39 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 319.
Her main battery was five 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 730 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 11 March 1958. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1974.
She was broken up for scrap on 12 April 1976.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 60,000 shp (45 MW)
- geared turbines
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 5 × 5 in/38 cal guns
- 4 × 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Abbot (DD-629)
- USS Abner Read (DD-526)
- USS Albert W. Grant
- USS Ammen (DD-527)
- USS Anthony (DD-515)
- USS Aulick (DD-569)
- USS Bache (DD-470)
- USS Beale (DD-471)
- USS Bearss
- USS Bell (DD-587)
- USS Benham (DD-796)
- USS Bennett
- USS Bennion
- USS Black
- USS Boyd
- USS Bradford
- USS Braine
- USS Brown (DD-546)
- USS Brownson (DD-518)
- USS Bryant
- USS Bullard
- USS Burns (DD-588)
- USS Bush (DD-529)
- USS Callaghan (DD-792)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Healy on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-51281 available at Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons