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Photo courtesy Donald H. Wilson, RM2USS
Corry
DD 817 (Gearing Class)
Builder: Consolidated - Orange Texas
Laid Down: April 5, 1945
Launched: July 28, 1945
Commissioned: February 26, 1946
Fate: To Greece - May, 1981
Photo courtesy William P. Speed LT
(ET2 48-50)
The carrier on the right is the USS Cabot
| Displacement: |
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2,616 tons (3,460 tons full
load) |
| Length: |
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390 feet 6 inches |
| Beam: |
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40 feet 10 inches |
| Draught: |
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14 feet 4 inches (mean) |
| Machinery: |
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4- Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines |
| Performance: |
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60,000 shp for 36.8 knots |
| Bunkerage: |
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740 tons |
| Range: |
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4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Torpedoes: |
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Ten 21 inch in two mounts |
| Guns: |
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Six 5 inch DP; Twelve 40 mm;
Eleven 20 mm
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