History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Fairfax |
Namesake | Donald Fairfax |
Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
Laid down | 10 July 1917 |
Launched | 15 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 6 April 1918 |
Decommissioned | 19 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
Decommissioned | 21 November 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 26 November 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Richmond |
Namesake | Richmond, North Yorkshire |
Acquired | 26 November 1940 |
Commissioned | 5 December 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: G88 |
Fate | Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Zhivuchy (Живучий / Tenacious) |
Acquired | 16 July 1944 |
Fate | Returned to UK for scrapping, 23 June 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,090 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Fairfax (DD-93) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred for World War II service first to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), a Town-class destroyer, and then to the Soviet Navy as Zhivuchy.[note 1]
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