USS Douglas H. Fox
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USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
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United States | |
Name | USS Douglas H. Fox |
Namesake | Douglas H. Fox |
Builder | Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle |
Laid down | 31 January 1944 |
Launched | 30 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 26 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 December 1973 |
Stricken | 15 December 1973 |
Fate | To Chile 8 January 1974 |
Chile | |
Name | Ministro Portales |
Acquired | 8 January 1974 |
Identification | DD-17 |
Fate | Scuttled off Cape Horn on 11 November 1998 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,200 long tons (2,235 t) |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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