USS Flusser (DD-20)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Flusser.
USS Flusser (DD–20) was a Smith-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second ship named for Lieutenant commander Charles W. Flusser.
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USS Flusser (DD-20) in 1909 during trials making 26 knots, note funnel arrangement. | |
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United States | |
Name | Flusser |
Namesake | Lieutenant commander Charles W. Flusser |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 3 August 1908 |
Launched | 20 July 1909 |
Sponsored by | Miss Genevieve Virden, grand-niece of Lieutenant Commander Flusser |
Commissioned | 28 October 1909 |
Decommissioned | 14 July 1919 |
Stricken | 15 September 1919 |
Identification | Hull symbol: DD-20 |
Fate | Sold, 15 November 1919 and broken up for scrap |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Smith-class destroyer |
Displacement | 700 long tons (710 t) normal |
Length | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
Beam | 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 7 in (3,230 mm) |
Speed | 31 kn (36 mph; 57 km/h) |
Complement | 89 officers and crew |
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