USS Harlan R. Dickson
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USS Harlan R. Dickson (DD-708), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Lieutenant Commander Harlan Rockey Dickson.
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Name | Harlan R. Dickson |
Namesake | Harlan Rockey Dickson |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 23 May 1944 |
Launched | 17 December 1944 |
Commissioned | 17 February 1945 |
Decommissioned | c.1972 |
Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
Fate | Sold 18 May 1973 and broken up for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,200 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
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Speed | 34 knots (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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Harlan R. Dickson was launched on 17 December 1944 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. Mildred Mae Studler, his mother. The ship was commissioned at New York on 17 February 1945.