U.S.S. Wilkinson
DL-5
1956
(Trident alpha Ta-10348)
- Class: Mitscher - 4 destroyer leaders of 1948
- Displacement: 4,855 tons full load
- Dimensions: 490' (oa) x 47'6" x 14'8"
- Machinery: 4 boliers, geared turbines; 80,000 shp; 2 shafts
- Speed: 36.5 knots
- Guns: 2-5"/54 (2x1) DP Mk 42; 4-3"/70 (2x2) AA guns
- ASW weapons: 2 Mk 108 Weapon Alfa; 4-21" TT
- Complement: 360
- Builder: Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Keel Laid: 1 Feb 1950
- Launched: 23 Apr 1952
- Commissioned: 29 Jul 1954
- Decommissioned: 19 Dec 1969
- Notes: Ordered as destroyer DD-930, but reclassified as destroyer leader DL-5 on 9 Feb 1951. Originally completed with two twin 3"/50 A.A., but later retrofitted with the larger twin 3"/70 as shown here. Sisters DL-2 Mitscher and DL-3 John S. McCain were both later converted to DDG-35/36, while DL-4 Willis A. Lee was decommissioned about the same time as Mitscher.
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