DD - USS Balch (DD-363)

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DD-363 USS Balch


class: Porter
shipyard: Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
construction started: May 16, 1934
launched: March 24, 1936
taken into service: October 20, 1936


discarded: October 19, 1945
sold for scrap: 1946


length: 381.25 '116.20 m
width: 37 '11.27 m
draft: 21 '6.40 m


Displacement
standard: 1 850 tonnes
maximum: 2 131 tonnes


Drive
boiler: 4 Babcock & amp; Wilcox
turbines: 2 Parsons
power: 51 127 shp
range: 7,000 n.mil/15 knots
speed: 38.2 knots


Armament


1941
8x127 mm 5 "/ 38 (4xII)
8x28 mm (2xIV)
2x12.7 mm 0.50 "MG (2xI)
torpedo tubes
8x533 (2xIV)
2xslide bomb slide
08/1943
6x127 mm 5 "/ 38 (3xII)
10x40 mm (1xIV, 3xII)
8x20 mm (8xI)
torpedo tubes
8x533 mm (2xIV)
2xslide bomb slide
4xdeep bomb throwers


Crew
290 sailors
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