USS Kearny
Service
- as Kearny13 September 1940 — 7 March 19461,815 days of the war
- Name
- USS Kearny
- Namesake
- Lawrence Kearny
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
- Laid down
- 1 March 1939
- Launched
- 9 March 1940
- Commissioned
- 13 September 1940
- Decommissioned
- 7 March 1946
- Struck
- 1 June 1971
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 6 October 1972 (1972)
- 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 Kearny was a Gleaves-class destroyer built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Lawrence Kearny. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company laid her keel on 1 March 1939. She entered service on 13 September 1940, having been launched on 9 March 1940.
Her class ran to 66 ships. 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 1,815 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 7 March 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1971.
She was broken up for scrap on 6 October 1972.
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 (127 mm) DP guns
- 6 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns
- 6 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 in (53 cm) 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 Davison
- 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Kearny on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-28745 available at Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons