USS Rhind
Service
- 10 November 1939 — 26 August 19462,123 days of the war
- Name
- USS Rhind
- Namesake
- Alexander Colden Rhind
- Builder
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 22 September 1937
- Launched
- 28 July 1938
- Commissioned
- 10 November 1939
- Decommissioned
- 26 August 1946
- Struck
- 5 April 1948
- Fate
- Sunk, 22 March 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,350 long tons (2,388 t)
- Length
- 103.94 m (341 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 184
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Rhind was a Benham-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Alexander Colden Rhind. Philadelphia Naval Shipyard laid her keel on 22 September 1937. She entered service on 10 November 1939, having been launched on 28 July 1938.
She was one of ten ships of her class. The class followed the Somers-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Sims-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,350 long tons. She measured 103.9 m (341 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 184.
Her main battery was four 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,123 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 August 1946. She was struck from the register on 5 April 1948.
She was sunk on 22 March 1948. 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
- 50,000 shp
- Westinghouse Geared Turbines
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 4 × 5 in/38 guns
- 16 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Rhind on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/05/404.htm [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons