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Albert W. Grant

USS Albert W. Grant

Survived

United States Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher
WarSecond World War
Main guns5 × 5″ guns

Caught between the two sides at Surigao Strait, hit by about twenty shells from American cruisers as well as Japanese guns; 34 men were killed.

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649) passes under the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge (Cooper River Bridge), Charleston, South Carolina (USA), on 11 December 1943. Photo: U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 5 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 cal dual purpose guns
  • 10 × Bofors 40 mm guns
  • 7 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
  • 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 6 × depth charge projectors
  • 2 × depth charge tracks
BuilderCharleston Navy Yard
Laid down30 December 1942
Launched29 May 1943
Commissioned24 November 1943
Displacement2,050 tons
Length376 ft 5 in (114.73 m)
Speed35.2 knots (65.2 km/h; 40.5 mph)
Complement329 officers and enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

29 May 1943

24–25 October 1944

Third destroyer attack; hit by both sides