USS Melvin (DD-680)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Melvin.
USS Melvin (DD-680) was a Fletcher-class destroyer and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant, junior grade John T. Melvin (1887–1917), who was killed on 5 November 1917[1] while serving on the USS Alcedo in World War I and is recognized as the first American naval officer to die in that war.
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Namesake | John T. Melvin |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, N.J. |
Laid down | 6 July 1943 |
Launched | 17 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 13 January 1954 |
Stricken | 1 December 1974 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 14 August 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.7 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 9 in (12.1 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) |
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Speed | 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nm at 15 kn (12,000 km at 28 km/h) |
Complement | 273 |
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Melvin was laid down on 6 July 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, in Kearny, N.J., launched on 17 October 1943, sponsored by Miss Gertrude C. Bailey, grandniece of Lieutenant Melvin and commissioned on 24 November 1943.