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History | |
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Namesake | David Ross |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 7 September 1942 |
Launched | 10 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 21 February 1944 |
Decommissioned | 6 November 1959 |
Stricken | 1 December 1974 |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 26 January 1978. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.7 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 8 in (12.1 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) |
Propulsion | 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 6500 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 15 kt |
Complement | 314 |
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USS Ross (DD-563) was a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer. Ross is the only ship in U.S. naval history to survive two underwater mine explosions.