Builder:
Boston Navy Yard
Laid Down: November
3, 1943
Launched: December
7, 1943
Commissioned: December 17,
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Stricken August 1, 1972
The John C. Butler Class as Constructed
Displacement: 1,430
tons (1,811 tons full load)
Length:
306 feet
Beam:
37 feet
Draught:
11 feet 2 inches
Machinery:
two Combustion Engineering or Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
2-shaft Westinghouse turbines with electric drive
Performance: 12,000 for 23 knots
Bunkerage: 347 tons
Range: 6,000 nautical miles
at 12 knots
Guns: two single
5 inch 38 caliber
four 40mm in two twin mounts
ten 20mm machine guns
Torpedoes: one triple 21 inch mount
Depth Charges: two stern racks
eight k-guns
Complement: 156