USS Southerland
I would like to help with information of the Southerland. I will try and get some of the |
Builder: Bath Iron Works Corpn. Laid Down: May 27,1944 Launched: Oct. 5, 1944 Completed: Dec. 22, 1944 Commissioned: Dec. 22, 1944 Stricken: February 26, 1981 Fate: ? |
We are seeking information on the history of the USS Southerland and her crews.
Files may be
E-mailed to us and we will
incorporate them into these pages.
The Gearing Class has a new web master handling all of the e-mails for this class.
His name is Robert.
Displacement: 2,425 tons (3,300 tons full load)
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 40 feet 10 inches
Draught: 14 feet 4 inches (mean)
Machinery: four Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
Geared turbines. 2-shafts.
Performance: S.H.P.: 60,000 = 35 knots
Bunkerage: 740 tons
Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
Guns: six 5 inch DP; twelve 40 mm;
eleven 20 mm
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| The USS Southerland DD-743
will be having a reunion in the year 2000 in Omaha, Nebraska. The date is September 7,8,9 and 10. I would also like for any shipmates, from
any time period, to e-mail me and I will put you on the list. Please contact Richard Anderson at [email protected] |
USS Southerland Chronology
A POEM WRITTEN BY ENS. WALLACE L. WIKOFF
Article & pictures - 1rst Division
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click on "Fleet Post Office"
