USS Laws
Service
- as USS Laws18 November 1943 — 30 March 1964654 days of the war
- Name
- USS Laws
- Namesake
- Alexander Laws
- Builder
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 19 May 1942
- Launched
- 22 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 18 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 30 March 1964
- Struck
- 15 April 1973
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 3 December 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
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
- 273
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Laws was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Alexander Laws. Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation laid her keel on 19 May 1942. She entered service on 18 November 1943, having been launched on 22 April 1943.
She was one of 173 ships of her class. 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 273. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 654 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 March 1964. She was struck from the register on 15 April 1973.
She was broken up for scrap on 3 December 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
- 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 Bush (DD-529)
- USS Callaghan (DD-792)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Laws on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from NavSource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons