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USS Converse (DD-509)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Converse.
USS Converse (DD-509), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George A. Converse (1844–1909).
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![]() USS Converse (DD-509) in San Francisco Bay, 9 October 1944. | |
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Namesake | George A. Converse |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 23 February 1942 |
Launched | 30 August 1942 |
Commissioned | 20 November 1942 |
Decommissioned | 23 April 1946 |
Stricken | 1 October 1972 |
Fate | Transferred to Spain, 1 July 1959 |
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Name | Almirante Valdés (D23) |
Acquired | 1 July 1959 |
Stricken | 17 November 1986 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1988 |
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Displacement | 2,050 long tons (2,083 t) |
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 | 336 |
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Converse was launched 30 August 1942 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss A. V. Jackson; and commissioned 20 November 1942.