DD-471 USS Beale
class: Fletcher
shipyard: Bethkehem Steel Corporation, Staten Island, New York
construction started: December 19, 1941
launched: August 24, 1942
taken into service: 23 December 1942
discarded: April 11, 1946
reactivated: January 2, 1951
reclassified to DDE: January 2, 1951
reclassified to DD: June 30, 1962
discarded: September 20, 1968
written off: October 1, 1968
sunk as a training target near Virginia
when: 24 June 1969
length: 376'6 "114.75 m
width: 39'8 "12.09 m
draft: 12.5 '3.81 m
Displacement
standard: 2 276 tonnes
maximum: 3 005 tonnes
Drive
boiler: 4 Babcock & amp; Wilcox
turbines: 2 General Electric
power: 60,000 shp
range: 4,800 n.mil/15 knots
speed: 36.5 knots
Armament
5 x 127 mm 5 "/ 38 Mk.12 (5 x I)
anti-aircraft armament
1943-44
10 x 40 mm (5 x II)
7 x 20 mm (7 x I)
1945
14 x 40 mm (3 x II, 2 x IV)
anti-submarine armament
2 x depth bomb slide
6 x depth charge launcher
torpedo tubes
10 x 533 mm 21 "(2 x H)
Radars
air targets
SC
level targets
SG
shooting
Mk.37
sonar
QC
Crew
officers: 34
seafarers: 295
class: Fletcher
shipyard: Bethkehem Steel Corporation, Staten Island, New York
construction started: December 19, 1941
launched: August 24, 1942
taken into service: 23 December 1942
discarded: April 11, 1946
reactivated: January 2, 1951
reclassified to DDE: January 2, 1951
reclassified to DD: June 30, 1962
discarded: September 20, 1968
written off: October 1, 1968
sunk as a training target near Virginia
when: 24 June 1969
length: 376'6 "114.75 m
width: 39'8 "12.09 m
draft: 12.5 '3.81 m
Displacement
standard: 2 276 tonnes
maximum: 3 005 tonnes
Drive
boiler: 4 Babcock & amp; Wilcox
turbines: 2 General Electric
power: 60,000 shp
range: 4,800 n.mil/15 knots
speed: 36.5 knots
Armament
5 x 127 mm 5 "/ 38 Mk.12 (5 x I)
anti-aircraft armament
1943-44
10 x 40 mm (5 x II)
7 x 20 mm (7 x I)
1945
14 x 40 mm (3 x II, 2 x IV)
anti-submarine armament
2 x depth bomb slide
6 x depth charge launcher
torpedo tubes
10 x 533 mm 21 "(2 x H)
Radars
air targets
SC
level targets
SG
shooting
Mk.37
sonar
QC
Crew
officers: 34
seafarers: 295