U.S.S. Carpenter
DDE-825
1960
(Spider Navy SN 3-05b)
- Class: Gearing - 2 DDK conversions of 1946
- Displacement: 3,512 tons full load
- Dimensions: 391' x 41'2" x 20'
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 60,000 = 32 knots
- Armament: 4-3"/70 (2x2)
- ASW: 2 Mk 108 Weapon Alfa; 4 ASW TT
- Complement: 322
- Builder: Consolidated Shipbuilding, Orange, Texas
- Keel Laid: 30 Jul 1945
- Launched: 30 Dec 1945
- Commissioned: 15 Dec 1949
- Decommissioned: 1 Oct 1980
- Notes: Laid down as DD-825 but reclassified DDK-825 on 28 Jan 1948 before completion. Following shakedown as one of the first hunter-killer destroyers, she was reclassified DDE-825 on 4 Mar 1950.
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