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| History | |
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| Name | Gleaves |
| Namesake | Albert Gleaves |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 16 May 1938 |
| Launched | 9 December 1939 |
| Commissioned | 14 June 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 8 May 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1969 |
| Fate | Sold 29 June 1972 and broken up for scrap |
| 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 | 13 ft 2 in (4.01 m) |
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| 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 |
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USS Gleaves (DD-423) was the lead ship of the Gleaves class of destroyers. She is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Albert Gleaves, who is credited with improving the accuracy and precision of torpedoes and other naval arms.
Gleaves was launched by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 9 December 1939, sponsored jointly by Miss Evelina Gleaves Van Metre and Miss Clotilda Florence Cohen, granddaughters of Admiral Gleaves; and commissioned 14 June 1940, at Boston Navy Yard.