United States Navy — Destroyer class
Gleaves-class destroyer
Gleaves class
The class in numbers
- 66 Completed
- 14 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1938–1943
- In commission
- 1940–1956
- Preceded by
- Benson-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Fletcher-class destroyer
- Operators
- Taiwan
- Builders
- Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (26)
- Boston Navy Yard, MA (10)
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, WA (10)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (8)
- Charleston Navy Yard, SC (7)
- Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA (2)
- Norfolk Navy Yard, VA (2)
- Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA (1)
- Subclasses
- Bristol class, Artigliere-class destroyer, Asakaze-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,630 long tons (1,656 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,395 long tons (2,433 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Speed
- 37.4 knots (69.3 km/h, 43 mph)
- Complement
- 276
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As designed:
- 5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
- 6 × 0.50 in. (12.7 mm) guns
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 5), 10 torpedoes
- 2 × Depth charge tracks
- DD-453 onward:
- 4 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
- 4 × 40 mm Bofors guns (2 × 2)
- 7 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- 5 × 21 in torpedo tubes (1 × 5)
- 4-6 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- 2 × Depth charge tracks
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Aaron Ward (DD-483) | DD-483 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Baldwin | 1943 | Scuttled 1961 | |
| USS Beatty (DD-640) | DD-640 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Bristol (DD-453) | DD-453 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Buchanan (DD-484) | DD-484 | 1942 | Scrapped 1976 |
| USS Butler | DD-636 | 1942 | Scrapped 1948 |
| USS Carmick | DD-493 | 1942 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Corry (DD-463) | DD-463 | 1941 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Cowie | DD-632 | 1942 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Davison | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Doran (DD-634) | DD-634 | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Doyle (DMS-34) | DMS-34 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Duncan (DD-485) | DD-485 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Earle | 1942 | Scrapped 1970 | |
| USS Eberle | 1940 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Edison (DD-439) | DD-439 | 1941 | Scrapped 1966 |
| USS Edwards (DD-619) | DD-619 | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Ellyson | DD-454 | 1941 | Transferred 1970 |
| USS Emmons | DD-457 | 1941 | Scuttled 1945 |
| USS Endicott | DD-495 | 1943 | Scrapped 1970 |
| USS Ericsson (DD-440) | DD-440 | 1941 | Target 1970 |
| USS Fitch | DD-462 | 1942 | Target 1973 |
| USS Forrest | 1942 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Frankford | 1943 | Target | |
| USS Gherardi | DD-637 | 1942 | Target 1973 |
| USS Gleaves | 1940 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Glennon (DD-620) | DD-620 | 1942 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Grayson | 1941 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Gwin (DD-433) | DD-433 | 1941 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Hambleton | DD-455 | 1941 | Scrapped |
| USS Harding (DD-625) | DD-625 | 1943 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Herndon (DD-638) | DD-638 | 1942 | Target 1973 |
| USS Hobson | 1942 | Sunk 1952 | |
| USS Ingraham (DD-444) | DD-444 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Jeffers | DD-621 | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Kearny | 1940 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Knight | DD-633 | 1942 | Target 1967 |
| USS Lansdowne | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Lardner (DD-487) | DD-487 | 1942 | Target 1982 |
| USS Livermore (DD-429) | DD-429 | 1940 | Scrapped 1961 |
| USS Ludlow (DD-438) | DD-438 | 1941 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Macomb | DD-458 | 1942 | |
| USS Maddox (DD-622) | DD-622 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS McCalla (DD-488) | DD-488 | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS McCook (DD-496) | DD-496 | 1943 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Meredith (DD-434) | DD-434 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Mervine (DD-489) | DD-489 | 1942 | Scrapped 1969 |
| USS Monssen (DD-436) | DD-436 | 1941 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Nelson | 1942 | Scrapped 1969 | |
| USS Niblack | 1940 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Nicholson (DD-442) | DD-442 | 1941 | Target 1977 |
| USS Plunkett | DD-431 | 1940 | Scrapped 1975 |
| USS Quick | DD-490 | 1942 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Rodman | DD-456 | 1942 | Wrecked 1969 |
| USS Satterlee (DD-626) | DD-626 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Shubrick (DD-639) | DD-639 | 1943 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Stevenson (DD-645) | DD-645 | 1942 | Scrapped 1970 |
| USS Stockton (DD-646) | DD-646 | 1943 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Swanson | 1941 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Thompson (DD-627) | DD-627 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Thorn (DD-647) | DD-647 | 1943 | Target 1974 |
| USS Tillman (DD-641) | DD-641 | 1942 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Turner (DD-648) | DD-648 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Welles (DD-628) | DD-628 | 1943 | Scrapped 1969 |
| USS Wilkes (DD-441) | DD-441 | 1941 | Scrapped 1972 |
| USS Woolsey (DD-437) | DD-437 | 1941 | Scrapped 1974 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Gleaves-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.