DD 374 Tucker (USS Tucker ) - American destroyer type "Mahen" .
| Tucker | |
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| USS Tucker (DD-374) | |
 USS Tucker | |
| Service | |
 USA | |
| Class and type of vessel | |
| Organization | US Navy |
| Manufacturer | Norfolk navy yard |
| Construction started | August 15, 1934 |
| Launched | February 26, 1936 |
| Commissioned | July 23, 1936 |
| Status | blown up on american mines |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1488 t (standard) 2103 tons (full) |
| Length | 104.0 m |
| Width | 10.8 m |
| Draft | 4 m |
| Engines | 2 General Electric steam turbines , 4 boilers |
| Power | 46 000 liters from. (33 800 KW ) |
| Speed | 36.5 knots (68 km / h ) |
| Sailing range | 6,500 miles (12 knots) |
| Crew | 158 people in peacetime |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 5 × 1 - 127 mm / 38 AU |
| Flak | 4 × 1 - 12.7 mm machine gun |
| Anti-submarine weapons | 2 aft bomb spreaders, 14 depth charges |
| Mine torpedo armament | 3 four-pipe 533 mm SLT |
Laid down at the Norfolk Navy Yard shipyard on August 15, 1934 . Launched on February 26, 1936 , entered service on July 23, 1936 .
On August 3, 1942, it was blown up by American mines in the Segond Channel near the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and sank on August 4, 1942.
USS Tucker (DD-374)
Expelled from the U.S. Navy on December 22, 1944 .
Literature
- Robert Sinclair Parkin. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II . - Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press,2001 . - 408 p. - ISBN 0-306-81069-7 .