USS Saufley
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USS Saufley (DD/DDE/EDDE-465), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a warship of the United States Navy named for pioneering Naval Aviator, Lieutenant Richard Saufley, USN.
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United States | |
Name | Saufley |
Namesake | Lieutenant, junior grade, Richard C. Saufley (1884-1916), U.S. Navy aviation pioneer |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
Laid down | 27 January 1942 |
Launched | 19 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 29 August 1942 |
Decommissioned | 29 January 1965 |
Stricken | 1 September 1966 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 20 February 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
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 | 329 |
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Saufley was laid down on 27 January 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey; launched on 19 July 1942; sponsored by Saufley's widow, Mrs Helen (O’Rear) Scruggs (daughter of Judge Edward C. O’Rear of Frankfort, Kentucky),[1] commissioned 29 August 1942.