USS Killen
Service
- as Killen4 May 1944 — 9 July 1946486 days of the war
- Name
- USS Killen
- Namesake
- Edward Killen
- Builder
- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 26 November 1941
- Launched
- 10 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 4 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- 9 July 1946
- Struck
- 1 June 1963
- Fate
- Sunk as a target, 15 April 1975 (1975)
- 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
- 329
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Killen was a Fletcher-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Edward Killen. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard laid her keel on 26 November 1941. She entered service on 4 May 1944, having been launched on 10 January 1943.
173 ships of the class were built. 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 486 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 9 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1963.
She was expended as a target on 15 April 1975. 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
- 60,000 shp (45 MW)
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 5 × 5 in
- 4 × 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm 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 Bryant
- USS Bullard
- USS Burns (DD-588)
- USS Bush (DD-529)
- USS Callaghan (DD-792)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Killen on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 19-N-69368 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons