History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | John Lang |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 5 April 1937 |
Launched | 27 August 1938 |
Commissioned | 30 March 1939 |
Decommissioned | 16 October 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped, 31 October 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Benham-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,725 tons |
Length | 341 ft 1 in |
Beam | 35 ft 6 in |
Draft | 10 ft 9 in |
Speed | 38.5 |
Complement | 184 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 4 5-inch 38 caliber, 6 20 mm., 7 .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns. AA, 8 21" torpedo tubes, 2 depth charge racks |
The first USS Lang (DD-399) was a Benham-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after John Lang, a sailor in the United States Navy.