USS Haggard
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USS Haggard (DD-555) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy named for Captain Haggard of the Louisa, who fought in the Quasi-War.
History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Captain Thomas Haggard of the Louisa |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 27 March 1942 |
Launched | 9 February 1943 |
Commissioned | 31 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 1 November 1945 |
Stricken | 16 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 3 March 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.7 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 8 in (12.1 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) |
Propulsion | 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 6500 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 15 kt |
Complement | 273 |
Armament |
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Haggard was launched by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Wash., 9 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. E. B. McKinney; and commissioned 31 August 1943.
Haggard departed for shakedown training off California 29 September and after completing it departed Seattle 24 November for Pearl Harbor. The ship arrived 30 November 1943 and spent the next 2 months in tactical exercises with other destroyers in Hawaiian waters. Her first combat operation was to be the forthcoming invasion of the Marshall Islands, next step on the island road to Japan.