USS Rodman
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USS Rodman (DD-456/DMS-21), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Hugh Rodman.
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United States | |
Name | USS Rodman |
Namesake | Hugh Rodman |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 16 December 1940 |
Launched | 26 September 1941 |
Commissioned | 29 April 1942 |
Identification | DD-456 |
Reclassified | DMS-21, 16 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 28 July 1955 |
Fate | Transferred to Taiwan, 28 July 1955 |
Stricken | 1 November 1972 |
Taiwan | |
Name | ROCS Hsien Yang |
Acquired | 28 July 1955 |
Identification | DD-16 |
Fate | ran aground, c. 1969; name and pennant number reassigned to former USS Macomb (DD-458);[1] expended for film purposes in 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gleaves-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,630 tons |
Length | 348 ft 4 in (106.17 m) |
Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 5 in (5.31 m) |
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Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h) |
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Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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Rodman was laid down on 16 December 1940 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey and launched on 26 September 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Albert K. Stebbins, Jr., grandniece of Admiral Rodman. The destroyer was commissioned on 27 January 1942.