USS Converse (DD-509)

USS Converse (DD-509) in San Francisco Bay, 9 October 1944.
History
United States
Namesake	George A. Converse
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	23 February 1942
Launched	30 August 1942
Commissioned	20 November 1942
Decommissioned	23 April 1946
Stricken	1 October 1972
Fate	Transferred to Spain, 1 July 1959
Spain
Name	Almirante Valdés (D23)
Acquired	1 July 1959
Stricken	17 November 1986
Fate	Scrapped in 1988
General characteristics
Class and type	Fletcher-class destroyer Lepanto-class destroyer
Displacement	2,050 long tons (2,083 t)
Length	376 ft 6 in (114.7 m)
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Draft	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion	60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	6500 nmi (12,000 km) at 15 kt
Complement	336
Armament	5 × single 5 in (127 mm)/38 guns 5 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 7 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × single depth charge throwers 2 × depth charge racks

USS Converse (DD-509), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George A. Converse (1844–1909).

Converse was launched 30 August 1942 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss A. V. Jackson; and commissioned 20 November 1942.