Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Destroyer DD-639

USS Shubrick (DD-639)

Gleaves-class destroyer

USS Shubrick (DD-639)
Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — DD-639 The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shubrick (DD-638), circa 1943.

Service

  1. United States Navy as Shubrick7 February 1943 — 16 November 1945938 days of the war
Full service history About 1,014 words
Gleaves-class destroyer Particulars
Name
USS Shubrick
Pennant / hull number
DD-639
Namesake
William B. Shubrick
Builder
Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
Laid down
17 February 1942
Launched
18 April 1942
Commissioned
7 February 1943
Decommissioned
16 November 1945
Struck
28 November 1945
Fate
Sold for scrap, 28 September 1947 (1947)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,630 long tons (1,656 t)
Length
106.07 m (348 ft)
Beam
10.97 m (36 ft)
Draught
3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed
37.4 knots (69.3 km/h, 43 mph)
Range
6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
Complement
276
Main gun
127 mm (5 in)

William Bradford Shubrick born on 31 October 1790 at "Belvedere," Bull's Island, S.C., studied at Harvard before accepting an appointment as a midshipman in 1806. Following service in the Mediterranean in Wasp, he served in Argus along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

After duty in Hornet early in the War of 1812, he was assigned to Constellation; and, while that frigate was at Norfolk, he led a party of Bluejackets in beating off a British boat attack against Craney Island on 22 June 1813. He subsequently won a Congressional medal for service in Constitution during her capture of Cyane and Levant.

During the more than three decades separating the War of 1812 from the Mexican War, Shubrick commanded, in turn, Lexington and Natchez; directed operation of the West Indies Squadron from 1838 to 1840; and headed the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing from 1845 to 1846.

Continue to the full service history About 1,014 words

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Shubrick IV (DD-639)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 50000 shp
  • 4 boilers
  • 2 propellers
Armament
  • 4 × 5 in/38 caliber DP guns
  • 4 × 40 mm guns
  • 7 × 20 mm AA guns
  • 5 × 21 in torpedo tubes (5 Mark 15 torpedoes)
  • 6 × depth charge projectors
  • 2 × depth charge tracks

Sister ships

41 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Shubrick (DD-639) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Shubrick IV (DD-639) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons