USS Welles (DD-628)
Gleaves-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Welles.
USS Welles (DD-628), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gideon Welles.
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Name | Welles |
Namesake | Gideon Welles |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 27 September 1941 |
Launched | 7 September 1942 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 4 February 1946 |
Stricken | 10 February 1968 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 18 July 1969 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gleaves-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,630 tons |
Length | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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Speed | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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Welles was laid down on 27 September 1941 at Seattle, Washington, by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. and launched on 7 September 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Suzanne Dudley Welles Brainard. The ship was commissioned on 16 August 1943.