Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Destroyer DD-731

USS Maddox (DD-731)

Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer

USS Maddox (DD-731)
Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 97900 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — DD-731 The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea, circa the early 1960s.

Service

  1. United States Navy as Maddox2 June 1944 — 1972457 days of the war
  2. as Po Yang6 July 1972 — 30 June 1984
Full service history About 542 words
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer Particulars
Name
USS Maddox
Pennant / hull number
DD-731
Namesake
William A. T. Maddox
Builder
Bath Iron Works
Laid down
28 October 1943
Launched
19 March 1944
Commissioned
2 June 1944
Decommissioned
1972
Struck
2 July 1972
Fate
Scrapped, 1985 (1985)
Status
Scrapped

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)

Paul Jones (DD-10), the second ship so named, was laid down 20 April 1899 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.; launched 14 June 1902; sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Goldsborough Adams; and commissioned 19 July 1902, Lt. R. F. Gross in command.

Originally built as a torpedo boat destroyer, Paul Jones served in the Pacific Fleet, homeported at San Francisco. A unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, she was at San Francisco at the beginning of World War I.

Paul Jones sailed 23 April 1917 for Norfolk, Va. via San Diego, Acapulco, the Canal Zone, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arriving 3 August. On 4 August she took station off the York River on patrol assignment until joining: Duncan (No. 46), Henley (No. 39), Truxton (No. 14), Stewart (No. 13), Preble (No. 12), Hull (No. 7), Macdonough (No. 9), and Hopkins (No. 6) as escorts for Battleship Force Atlantic, on 13 August, for passage to Bermuda and New York.

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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Paul Jones II (DD-10)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 60000 shp
  • 2 propellers
Armament
  • 6 × 5 in/38 cal. 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

29 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Maddox (DD-731) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Paul Jones II (DD-10) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 97900 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons