USS Timmerman underway in 1953
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Timmerman |
Namesake | United States Marine Grant F. Timmerman |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 1 October 1945 |
Launched | 19 May 1951 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Fred Timmerman |
Commissioned | 26 September 1952 |
Decommissioned | 27 July 1956 |
Reclassified | EDD-828, 4 March 1950; AG-152, 11 January 1954 |
Stricken | 4 April 1958 |
Fate | Sold in 1959 and scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,460 tons |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) (Max) |
Propulsion | 100,000 shp (75 MW) (in theory); 1 (port) General Electric Turbine 2,000psi/1,050 °F, 1 (starboard) Westinghouse turbine 875psi/1,050 °F (both intended for the cancelled DD-452), 2 screws |
Speed | Est. 40–43 knots (74–80 km/h; 46–49 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 336 officer and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Timmerman (DD-828/EDD-828/AG-152) was a Gearing-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1952 to 1956. She was an experimental design and was scrapped in 1959.