USS Fletcher
DD-445
(Fletcher Class)

USS Fletcher DD 445
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USS FLETCHER
LUCKY THIRTEEN

The USS Fletcher DD/DDE 445, "first in Class" was designed in 1939 and commissioned June 30, 1942.
Her blueprint design was followed by 174 more destroyers called the Fletcher class.
This ship was named after Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher.
The ship's hull number 445 adds up to 13.

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The Fletcher Class As Constructed

Displacement:  2,325 tons (2,924 tons Full load)
Length:        376 feet 5 inches
Beam:          39 feet 7 inches
Draught:       13 feet 9 inches
Machinery:     four Babcock & Wilcox boilers
               2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines
Performance:   60,000 shp for 38 knots
Bunkerage:     492 tons
Range:         6,500 nautical miles at 15 knots
Guns:          five 5 inch; four 1.1 inch; four 20 mm
Torpedoes:     ten 21 inch

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