USS Davison
Service
- as Davison11 September 1942 — 24 June 19491,087 days of the war
- Name
- USS Davison
- Namesake
- Gregory C. Davison
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
- Laid down
- 26 February 1942
- Launched
- 19 July 1942
- Commissioned
- 11 September 1942
- Decommissioned
- 24 June 1949
- Struck
- 15 January 1972
- Fate
- Sold 27 August 1973 and
broken up for scrap (1973) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,630 long tons (1,656 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 37.4 knots (69.3 km/h, 43 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 276
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Davison was a Gleaves-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Gregory C. Davison. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company laid her keel on 26 February 1942. Launched on 19 July 1942, she entered service on 11 September 1942.
66 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Benson-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Fletcher-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,630 long tons. She measured 106.1 m (348 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 37.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 276.
Her main battery was five 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,087 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 24 June 1949. She was struck from the register on 15 January 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 27 August 1973.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 50000 shp
- 4 boilers
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 5 × 5 in DP guns
- 6 × 0.50 in guns
- 6 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Aaron Ward (DD-483)
- USS Baldwin
- USS Beatty (DD-640)
- USS Bristol (DD-453)
- USS Buchanan (DD-484)
- USS Butler
- USS Carmick
- USS Corry (DD-463)
- USS Cowie
- USS Doran (DD-634)
- USS Doyle (DMS-34)
- USS Duncan (DD-485)
- USS Earle
- USS Eberle
- USS Edison (DD-439)
- USS Edwards (DD-619)
- USS Ellyson
- USS Emmons
- USS Endicott
- USS Ericsson (DD-440)
- USS Fitch
- USS Forrest
- USS Frankford
- USS Gherardi
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Davison on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Edited by Destroyer History Foundation from photo 19-N-86598 scanned at the National Archives and Records Administration — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons