Ship Specifications

A Buckley Class DE, typical of 154 GE Turbo-Electric Powered "TEs". Displacement-1400 Tons, Length-305', Width at Beam-37.5', Mean Draft-9.5'
Twin Propeller Shafts, Shaft HP-12000

Two Boilers,24 Knots Max Speed

Built in Bethlehem Ship Yard, San Francisco, Launched 5 Sept. 1943

Commissioned 19 November 1943

Sank as Target for the new Mark 48 Torpedo, 28 April 1971
Last Hours of Whitehurst

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