USS Niblack
Service
- as Niblack1 August 1940 — June 19461,858 days of the war
- Name
- USS Niblack
- Namesake
- Albert Parker Niblack
- Builder
- Bath Iron Works
- Laid down
- 8 August 1938
- Launched
- 18 May 1940
- Commissioned
- 1 August 1940
- Decommissioned
- June 1946
- Struck
- 31 July 1968
- Fate
- Sold 16 August 1973
and broken up for scrap (1973) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,839 long tons (1,869 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,395 long tons (2,433 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 276
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Niblack was a Gleaves-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Albert Parker Niblack. Her keel was laid at Bath Iron Works on 8 August 1938. Launched on 18 May 1940, she entered service on 1 August 1940.
66 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Benson-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Fletcher-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,839 long tons standard and 2,395 long tons at full load. She measured 106.1 m (348 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 276.
Her main battery was four 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,858 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in June 1946. She was struck from the register on 31 July 1968.
She was broken up for scrap on 16 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
- 4 × 5 in DP guns
- 6 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns
- 5 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 6 × K-gun depth charge throwers (3 circled in photo)
- 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 Niblack on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Edited by Destroyer History Foundation from NARA photo, Bureau of Ships collection scanned at the National Archives and Records Administration — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons