History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | Picking |
Namesake | Sherwood Picking |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Staten Island, N.Y. |
Laid down | 24 November 1942 |
Launched | 1 June 1943 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1943 |
Decommissioned | 20 December 1945 |
Recommissioned | 26 January 1951 |
Decommissioned | 6 September 1969 |
Stricken | 1 March 1975 |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 27 February 1997 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
Length | 376.4 ft (114.7 m) |
Beam | 39.6 ft (12.1 m) |
Draft | 13.8 ft (4.2 m) |
Propulsion |
|
Speed | 38 kn (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 329 |
Armament |
|
USS Picking (DD-685), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Sherwood Picking (1890–1941), a submarine commander during World War I.