Name / Name : | USS Edson | |
Type / Type : | destroyer | |
Class / Class : | Forrest Sherman | |
Code name / Pennant number : | DD-946 | |
the Founding of the keel / Laid down : | 3.12.1956 | |
Run to the water / Launched : | 4.1.1958 | |
entry into service / commissioned by : | 7.11.1958 | |
withdrawn from service / End of service : | 15.12.1988 | |
Shipyard / Built by : | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine , USA | |
Duration / Length : (m) | of 127.6 | |
Width / Beam : (m) | 13,7 | |
Draught / Draft : (m) | 6,7 | |
Displacement standard / Displacement, standard : (t) | 2734 | |
a Displacement of the maximum / Displacement, maximal : (t) | 4619 | |
Armament / Armament : | 3x 127mm/54 (3xI) 4x 76mm/50 (2xII) 2x Hedgehog 4x 533 TT (4xI) from 1973 3x 127mm/54 (3xI) 2x 76mm/50 (1xII) 6 324mm (2xIII) ASW torpedo tubes | |
Gear and equipment / Equipment : | Radar SPS-6 2D air search radar Radar SPS-10 2D surface search radar Radar SPG-53 - a gunnery radar for the gun Sonar SQR-4 from 1973 Radar SPS-6 2D air search radar Radar SPS-10 2D surface search radar Radar SPG-53 - a gunnery radar for the gun Sonar SQS-23 - trupový sonar Sonar SQS-35 | |
Armour / Armour : (mm) | | |
Propulsion / Engines : | 4 boiler Babcock & Wilcox 2 steam turbines Worthington | |
Power / Power : (SHP) | 70 000 | |
Screws / Propellers : (pcs) | 2 | |
Speed / Speed : (kts) | 33 | |
fuel Quantity / Fuel : (t) | | |
Range/Range : (miles/kts) | 4500 / 20 | |
Aircraft / Aircraft : | | |
Crew / Crew : | 324 | |
Note / Note : | the Ship was 31.1.1989 removed from the state fleet. From 30.6.1989 to 2004 was housed in the museum in New York. Currently it is enshrined in Philadelphia, where waiting for placement in a museum in Sheboygan. |
Sources:
Pejčoch, Ivo, Novák, Zdeněk, Hájek, Tomáš: warships[5]. 1.edition, Prague:Our troop. s. p. 1994, 392str., ISBN 80-206-0414-6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Edson_(DD-946)
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/946.htm
http://navysite.de/dd/dd946.htm
en.wikipedia.org
http://www.edsondd946.org/.