USS Flusser (DD-289)

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum Victory Yard

1,190 ts ( Standard)

94.32 m (314 ft 5 in )

9.70 m (31 ft 8 in )

3.10 m ( 9 ft 4 in)

120

4 steam boilers 26,500 hp 2 Turbines, 2 screws

35 knots (65 km / h)

4 × 4 " guns ( 102 mm) guns in single 4 x 21 " - ( 533 - mm ) torpedo tubes

The USS Flusser ( DD -289 ID ) was a destroyer of the U.S. Navy after the First World War and the third ship to bear this name. She belonged to the Clemson - class and was named after Charles Williamson Flusser.

Godmother of the ship was Mrs. Maude F. Williams; First commander was Commander R. S. Galloway.

Shipyard was the Squantum Victory Yard in Squantum (Massachusetts ) of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation

Service history

After the commissioning of Flusser Key West, Florida, was assigned as a home port. From here she undertook training and patrols in the Gulf of Mexico and along the east coast of the United States. On June 18, 1924 left the destroyer, along with a fleet Association (U.S. Naval Forces, Europe) Newport (Rhode Iceland ) on a trip abroad, were visited at the ports in 15 European countries. ( Among other things they went through while the Kiel Canal). The Association returned on July 16, 1925 in New York.

After that Flusser once again took over the original tasks as patrol and training vessel, including the development of destroyer tactics and the training of reservists. Pursuant to the provisions of the London Conference of 1930, the Flusser was counted among the supernumerary vessels and decommissioned on 1 May 1930 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania).

Swell

Http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f3/flusser-iii.htm
Http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/289.htm

List of destroyers of the U.S. Navy List of destroyer classes of the U.S. Navy

Clemson - class

Draft (hull) Knot (unit) Clemson-class destroyer Charles W. Flusser Bethlehem Steel Newport (Rhode Island) USS S. P. Lee (DD-310) USS Preston (DD-327)

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