Contractor. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, USA
Percentage of completion on 1 May 1942: 93.0
Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 6.0
Laid down: 15 September 1941
Launched: 20 March 1942
Number of months between keel laying and completion: 8.1/3
Date of completion as per contract or order: 9 December 1942
Date of completion as reported by building yard on 11 January 1941: 3 June 1942
Date of completion as last reported by building yard: 26 May 1942
Months ahead/behind 11 January 1941 prediction: 0.3
Note
1. Part of Gleaves-class destroyers, preceded by Benson-class, succeeded by Fletcher-class. Commissioned on 27 May 1942, decommissioned and handed over tot he Turkish navy on 29 April 1949, renamed TCG Giresun, stricken from US Navy list on 7 June 1949 and finally stricken and broken up in 1973.
Sources
Franklin Roosevelt D. Roosevelt Presidential Library&Museum. Bureau of Ships: reports 1 May 1942 FDR’s President’s Secretary’s Files (psfc000095).
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