USS Walton DE 361 Information Page

USS Walton
DE 361 (John C. Butler Class)

Contributed by: Geral Foglesong

Authorized: Builder: Consolidated, Orange Laid Down: March 21, 1944 Launched: May 20, 1944 Commissioned: September 4, 1944 Decommissioned: Fate: Stricken September 1968

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The John C. Butler Class as Constructed

Displacement: 1,430 tons (1,811 tons full load) Length: 306 feet Beam: 37 feet Draught: 11 feet 2 inches Machinery: two Combustion Engineering or Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 2-shaft Westinghouse turbines with electric drive Performance: 12,000 for 23 knots Bunkerage: 347 tons Range: 6,000 nautical miles at 12 knots Guns: two single 5 inch 38 caliber four 40mm in two twin mounts ten 20mm machine guns Torpedoes: one triple 21 inch mount Depth Charges: two stern racks eight k-guns Complement: 156
In other words - small ship armed to the teeth.

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