USS Bryant
Service
- as USS Bryant4 December 1943 — 15 January 1947638 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bryant
- Namesake
- Rear Admiral Samuel W. Bryant
- Builder
- Charleston Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 30 December 1942
- Launched
- 29 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 4 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 15 January 1947
- Struck
- 30 June 1968
- Fate
- Scrapped, 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
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 329
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Bryant was a Fletcher-class destroyer built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Rear Admiral Samuel W. Bryant. Her keel was laid at Charleston Navy Yard on 30 December 1942. Launched on 29 May 1943, she entered service on 4 December 1943.
Her class ran to 173 ships. 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 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 329.
Her main battery was five 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 638 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1947. She was struck from the register on 30 June 1968.
She was broken up for scrap in 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 guns
- 4 × 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm guns 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 Bullard
- USS Burns (DD-588)
- USS Bush (DD-529)
- USS Callaghan (DD-792)
- USS Caperton
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Bryant on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-57124 available at Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons