USS Buchanan (DD-484)

History
United States
Name	Buchanan
Namesake	Franklin Buchanan
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down	11 February 1941
Launched	22 November 1941
Commissioned	21 March 1942
Decommissioned	28 April 1948
Fate	Transferred to Turkey, 28 April 1949
Stricken	7 June 1949
Turkey
Name	Gelibolu
Acquired	28 April 1949
Stricken	1976
Fate	Scrapped, 1976
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)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
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
Armament	4 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns, 6 × 20 mm AA guns, 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Buchanan (DD-484) was a Gleaves-class destroyer, the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Franklin Buchanan, who was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.

Buchanan (DD-484) was launched on 22 November 1941 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Miss Hildreth Meiere, great-granddaughter of Admiral Buchanan. The ship commissioned on 21 March 1942.