&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Ludlow_43-1287M.jpg) USS Ludlow in March 1941
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Ludlow |
| Namesake | Augustus C. Ludlow |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 18 December 1939 |
| Launched | 11 November 1940 |
| Commissioned | 5 March 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 22 January 1951 |
| Stricken | 24 January 1951 |
| Identification | DD-438 |
| Fate | transferred to Greece, 22 January 1951 |
 Greece | |
| Name | Doxa |
| Acquired | 22 January 1951 |
| Stricken | 1972 |
| Identification | D20 |
| Fate | Broken up for scrap in 1972 |
| 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) |
| Propulsion |
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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 Ludlow (DD-438), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. The second and third Ludlow ships were named for Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow, second in command of USS Chesapeake. He was, like his captain, mortally wounded in their ship's engagement with HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813, and died at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 13 June.
Ludlow was laid down 18 December 1939 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was launched 11 November 1940, sponsored by Miss Frances Nicholson Chrystie, a descendant of Lieutenant Ludlow, and commissioned at Boston 5 March 1941.