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McCalla

USS McCalla

Survived

United States Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassGleaves
WarSecond World War
Main guns5 × 5″ guns

Fought at Cape Esperance and picked up Japanese survivors afterwards.

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS McCalla (DD-488) underway on her delivery voyage from the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, at Kearny, New Jersey (USA), to the New York Naval Shipyard, 26 May 1942. She was commissioned on the following day. Note the Federal SB & DD Co. flag flying just Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
  • 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) guns
  • 6 × 20 mm AA guns
  • 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 2 × depth charge tracks
BuilderFederal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down15 September 1941
Launched20 March 1942
Commissioned27 May 1942
Displacement1,630 tons
Length348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Speed37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Complement16 officers, 260 enlisted

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

Career

Launched

20 March 1942

11–12 October 1942

Fate

Survived

Scrapped, 1973