USS Flusser (DD-20)
700 ts ( Standard)
97.91 m ( 293 ft 10 in )
8.78 m (26 ft 5 in )
2.66 m (8 ft)
85
4 steam boilers
28 knots (52 km / h)
- 4 × 3 " / 50 guns (7.6 cm L/50 ) guns in single
- 3 × 21 " - ( 53.3 cm ) torpedo tubes
The USS Flusser ( DD- ID 20 ) was a destroyer in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the second ship to bear this name. She belonged to the Smith class and was named after Charles Williamson Flusser.
Godmother of the ship was Miss Genevieve Virden, the grandniece of its namesake. First commander was Lieutenant Commander JP Morton.
Service history
The Flusser reached its home port in Charleston (South Carolina) for the first time on 17 December 1909 and began from here their training rides under the " Atlantic Torpedo Fleet ." She then went in coastal protection from the Caribbean to New England on the east coast of the United States until August 1916. This month she became the neutrality patrol allocated and cruised from there in front of New York and the Long Iceland sound.
After a dockyard time in New Orleans ( Louisiana) Flusser was used further in the spring of 1917 to 30 July of the same year in coastal protection. Then she left Charleston for a two month trip to Ponta Delgada in the Azores, to take over from here, escort and patrol duties.
Then it was again summoned across the Atlantic, where she provided escort and patrol duty in the area of the English Channel in base Brest. This period lasted from October 22 to December 9, 1918, when they broke in one last time in Charleston. After that Flusser moved to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, where she was placed out of service on July 14, 1919.
Swell
- Http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f3/flusser-ii.htm