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USS Chevalier (DD-451)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Chevalier.
USS Chevalier (DD-451), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Chevalier.
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Name | Chevalier |
Namesake | Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Chevalier |
Ordered | July 1940 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 30 April 1941 |
Launched | 11 April 1942 |
Commissioned | 20 July 1942 |
Stricken | 16 November 1943 |
Fate | Scuttled after being torpedoed and accidentally rammed, 7 October 1943 |
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) at 15 kt |
Complement | 329 |
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