USS Nields
Service
- as USS Nields (DD-616)15 January 1943 — 26 March 1946961 days of the war
- Name
- USS Nields
- Namesake
- Henry C. Nields
- Builder
- Fore River Shipyard
- Laid down
- 15 June 1942
- Launched
- 1 October 1942
- Commissioned
- 15 January 1943
- Decommissioned
- 26 March 1946
- Struck
- 15 September 1970
- Fate
- Sold 8 May 1972 and broken up for scrap. (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,620 long tons (1,646 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h, 43.2 mph)
- Complement
- 259
USS Nields was a Benson-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Henry C. Nields. Fore River Shipyard laid her keel on 15 June 1942. She entered service on 15 January 1943, having been launched on 1 October 1942.
Her class ran to 30 ships. The class followed the Sims-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gleaves-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,620 long tons. She measured 106.1 m (348 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 37.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 259.
Her main battery was four 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 961 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 March 1946. She was struck from the register on 15 September 1970.
She was broken up for scrap on 8 May 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 4 x 5-inch 38 caliber, 4 x 40 mm., 7 x 20 mm., 5 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 depth charge projectors, 2 depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Bailey (DD-492)
- USS Bancroft (DD-598)
- USS Barton (DD-599)
- USS Benson
- USS Boyle
- USS Caldwell (DD-605)
- USS Champlin (DD-601)
- USS Charles F. Hughes
- USS Coghlan (DD-606)
- USS Farenholt (DD-491)
- USS Frazier
- USS Gansevoort
- USS Gillespie
- USS Hilary P. Jones
- USS Hobby
- USS Kalk (DD-611)
- USS Kendrick
- USS Laffey (DD-459)
- USS Lansdale (DD-426)
- USS Laub (DD-613)
- USS MacKenzie (DD-614)
- USS Madison (DD-425)
- USS Mayo
- USS McLanahan (DD-615)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Nields on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-84210 from a Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons