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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Picking |
| Namesake | Sherwood Picking |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Staten Island, N.Y. |
| Laid down | 24 November 1942 |
| Launched | 1 June 1943 |
| Commissioned | 21 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 20 December 1945 |
| Recommissioned | 26 January 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 6 September 1969 |
| Stricken | 1 March 1975 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 27 February 1997 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,050 tons |
| Length | 376.4 ft (114.7 m) |
| Beam | 39.6 ft (12.1 m) |
| Draft | 13.8 ft (4.2 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 38 kn (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
| Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 329 |
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USS Picking (DD-685), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Sherwood Picking (1890–1941), a submarine commander during World War I.