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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Plunkett |
| Namesake | Charles Peshall Plunkett |
| Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down | 1 March 1939 |
| Launched | 7 March 1940 |
| Commissioned | 17 July 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 3 May 1946 |
| Fate | To Taiwan, 16 February 1959 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1972 |
| Identification | DD-431 |
 Taiwan | |
| Name | ROCS Nan Yang |
| Acquired | 16 February 1959 |
| Stricken | 1975 |
| Identification | DD-17 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1975 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Armament |
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USS Plunkett (DD-431), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett.
Plunkett was laid down on 1 March 1939 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey and launched on 7 March 1940, sponsored by Mrs. Charles P. Plunkett, widow of Rear Admiral Plunkett. The ship was commissioned on 17 July 1940.