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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Ellyson |
| Namesake | Theodore Gordon Ellyson |
| Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down | 20 December 1940 |
| Launched | 26 July 1941 |
| Commissioned | 28 November 1941 |
| Identification | DD-454 |
| Decommissioned | 19 October 1954 |
| Reclassified | DMS-19, 15 November 1944 |
| Fate | To Japan, 19 October 1954 |
| Stricken | 1 February 1970 |
 Japan | |
| Name | JDS Asakaze |
| Acquired | 19 October 1954 |
| Identification | DD-181 |
| Fate | Returned to U.S., 1970; sold to Republic of China, August 1970 and cannibalized for spare parts |
| 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) |
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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 Ellyson (DD-454/DMS-19), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Theodore Gordon Ellyson, a submariner who became the first officer of the U.S. Navy to be designated a naval aviator.