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USS NAVY DESTROYERS
The USS Destroyer STURTEVANT (DD-240) and the USS Destroyer Escort STURTEVANT
DE-239)
were named in honor of WW1 US aviator
Albert Dillon Sturtevant
.
DD-240 USS STURTEVANT (Built 1918)
CLASS -
CLEMSON
As Built.
Displacement 1,215 Tons, Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31'
8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21"
tt..
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots,
Crew 114
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York
Shipbuilding on November 23 1918.
Launched July 29 1919 and commissioned
September 21 1920.
Decommissioned January 30 1931, recommissioned March 9
1932.
Decommissioned November 20 1935, recommissioned September 26
1939.
Fate
Struck mine and sank off Key West Fla. April 26
1942.
15 of her crew
were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
DE- 239 USS STURTEVANT (Built 1942)
CLASS -
Edsall
Displacement 1,250 Tons, Dimensions, 306' (oa) x 36' x 10' 5"
(Max)
Armament 3 x 3"/50, 2x 40mmAA, 10x 20mm AA, 3 x 21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8
DCT's 2 DC racks.
Machinery, 6,000 SHP; 4 Fairbanks Morse Model 38d81/8
Geared Diesel Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 186.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston
on July 15 1942.
Launched December 3 1942.
Commissioned June 16
1943.
Decommissioned March 24 1946.
Recommissioned August 3
1951.
Reclassified DER-239, November 1 1956.
Decommissioned June (?)
1960.
Stricken December 1 1972.
Fate
Sold September 20 1973 and
broken up for scrap.
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Last Update 8th August 2010
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