USS Bush (DD-529)
Service
- as Bush10 May 1943 — 6 April 1945697 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bush
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-529
- Namesake
- William Sharp Bush
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
- Laid down
- 12 February 1942
- Launched
- 27 October 1942
- Commissioned
- 10 May 1943
- Fate
- Sunk by kamikazes off Okinawa, 6 April 1945
By aircraft (1945) - Status
- Wreck
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
- 336
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
The second U.S. Navy ship named for 1st Lt. William Sharp Bush, USMC (1786–1812). See Bush I (Destroyer No. 166) for his biography.
complement 329; armament 5 5-inch, 10 21-inch torpedo tubes, 6 40-millimeter, 10 20-millimeter, 6 depth charge projectors, 2 depth charge tracks; class Fletcher )
The second Bush (DD-529) was laid down on 12 February 1942 at San Francisco, Calif., by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company; launched on 27 October 1942; and sponsored by Miss Marion Jackson, great-great grandniece of the ship’s namesake.
Continue to the full service history About 11,757 words
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Bush II (DD-529)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers
- Armament
- 5 × single Mk 12 5 in (127 mm)/38 guns
- 5 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns
- 7 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × single depth charge throwers
- 2 × depth charge racks
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 Callaghan (DD-792)
- USS Caperton
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Bush (DD-529) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Bush II (DD-529) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 98928 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons