DD - USS Edson (DD-946)

     
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withdrawn from service / End of service : 15.12.1988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/.
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