USS Cooper
Service
- as USS Cooper27 March 1944 — 3 December 1944251 days of the war
- Name
- USS Cooper
- Namesake
- Elmer Glenn Cooper
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
- Laid down
- 30 August 1943
- Launched
- 9 February 1944
- Commissioned
- 27 March 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Take in Ormoc Bay, 3 December 1944
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By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,200 long tons (2,235 t)
- Length
- 114.6 m (376 ft)
- Beam
- 12.19 m (40 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 336
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Cooper was a Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Elmer Glenn Cooper. Her keel was laid at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company on 30 August 1943. She entered service on 27 March 1944, having been launched on 9 February 1944.
Her class ran to 54 ships. The class followed the Fletcher-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gearing-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,200 long tons. She measured 114.6 m (376 ft) long with a beam of 12.2 m (40 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 336.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 251 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 3 December 1944 by torpedo, at 10°54′N 124°36′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 60000 shp
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 6 × 5 in/38 guns
- 12 × 40 mm AA guns
- 11 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Alfred A. Cunningham
- USS Allen M. Sumner
- USS Ault
- USS Barton (DD-722)
- USS Blue (DD-744)
- USS Borie (DD-704)
- USS Bristol (DD-857)
- USS Brush
- USS Charles S. Sperry
- USS Collett
- USS Compton
- USS De Haven (DD-727)
- USS Douglas H. Fox
- USS Drexler
- USS English
- USS Frank E. Evans
- USS Gainard
- USS Hank
- USS Harlan R. Dickson
- USS Harry E. Hubbard
- USS Haynsworth
- USS Hugh Purvis
- USS Hugh W. Hadley
- USS Hyman
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Cooper on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships; The original uploader was Malo at English Wikipedia ., 2005-09-16 (original upload date) — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-64350 available at navsource.org ; Originally from en.wikipedia ; description page is/was here — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons