USS Watts
Service
- 29 April 1944 — December 1964492 days of the war
- Name
- USS Watts
- Namesake
- John Watts
- Builder
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 26 March 1943
- Launched
- 31 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 29 April 1944
- Decommissioned
- December 1964
- Struck
- 1 February 1974
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 5 September 1974 (1974)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,050 long tons (2,083 t)
- Length
- 114.6 m (376 ft)
- Beam
- 11.89 m (39 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 329
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Watts was a Fletcher-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for John Watts. Her keel was laid at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation on 26 March 1943. She entered service on 29 April 1944, having been launched on 31 December 1943.
173 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Gleaves-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,050 long tons. She measured 114.6 m (376 ft) long with a beam of 11.9 m (39 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 329.
Her main battery was five 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 492 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in December 1964. She was struck from the register on 1 February 1974.
She was broken up for scrap on 5 September 1974.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers
- Armament
- 5 × 5 in guns
- 4 × 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Abbot (DD-629)
- USS Abner Read (DD-526)
- USS Albert W. Grant
- USS Ammen (DD-527)
- USS Anthony (DD-515)
- USS Aulick (DD-569)
- USS Bache (DD-470)
- USS Beale (DD-471)
- USS Bearss
- USS Bell (DD-587)
- USS Benham (DD-796)
- USS Bennett
- USS Bennion
- USS Black
- USS Boyd
- USS Bradford
- USS Braine
- USS Brown (DD-546)
- USS Brownson (DD-518)
- USS Bryant
- USS Bullard
- USS Burns (DD-588)
- USS Bush (DD-529)
- USS Callaghan (DD-792)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Watts on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Boxer (CVA-21) 1955-56 cruise book available at Navysite.de — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons