| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 10 October 1942
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| Launched:
| 4 April 1943
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| Commissioned:
| 30 September 1943
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| Decommissioned:
| 7 January 1965
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| Struck:
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| Fate:
| Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park, Buffalo, New York
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 2,050 tons
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| Length:
| 376.4 ft (114.7 m)
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| Beam:
| 39.6 ft (12.1 m)
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| Draft:
| 13.8 ft (4.2 m)
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| Propulsion:
| 60,000 SHP (45 MW);
2 propellors
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| Speed:
| 38 knot (70 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6500 NM (12,000 km) @ 15 knot
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| Complement:
| 329
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| Armament:
| 5 × 5 in/38 guns,
10 × 40 mm AA guns,
7 × 20 mm AA guns,
10 × 21 in torpedo tubes
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| Motto:
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The first USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a Fletcher-class destroyer.
The ship is named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers - George, Francis, Eugene, Madison, and Albert, aged 19 to 29 - who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in November 1942 in the Battle of the Solomon Islands. This was the greatest sacrifice by any one family during World War II.
There was another The Sullivans; see USS The Sullivans (DDG-68).
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