USS Power (DD-839)
Gearing-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Power (DD-839) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named for First Lieutenant John V. Power, USMC (1918–1944), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Battle of Kwajalein. This ship was involved in the Project SHAD tests off Newfoundland.
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USS Power underway in 1966 | |
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United States | |
Name | Power |
Namesake | John V. Power |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 26 February 1945 |
Launched | 30 June 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. George F. Power |
Commissioned | 13 September 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1977 |
Stricken | 1 October 1977 |
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Fate | Sold to Republic of China, 1 October 1977 |
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Taiwan | |
Name | Shen Yang |
Namesake | Shen Yang |
Acquired | 1 October 1977 |
Commissioned | 18 December 1978 |
Reclassified | DDG-923 |
Decommissioned | 1 January 2006 |
Identification | Hull number: DD-923 |
Fate | Scrapped, November 2013[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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