![]() USS Claxton in a Dazzle camouflage paint scheme
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Name | USS Claxton |
Namesake | Thomas Claxton |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 25 June 1941 |
Launched | 1 April 1942 |
Commissioned | 8 December 1942 |
Decommissioned | 18 April 1946 |
Stricken | 1 October 1974 |
Identification | DD-571 |
Fate | Transferred to West German Navy, 16 December 1959 |
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Name | Zerstörer 4 |
Acquired | 16 December 1959 |
Stricken | 1981 |
Identification | D178 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece as spares donor ship |
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Displacement | 2,050 long tons (2,080 t) |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
Propulsion | 60,000 shp (45 MW) ; 2 propellers |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 329 |
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USS Claxton (DD-571), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Thomas Claxton, born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Claxton was launched 1 April 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. A. D. Bernhard; and commissioned 8 December 1942, Commander Herald F. Stout in command.
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