USS Wilkinson (DL-5) in late 1950s
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History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson |
Builder | Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard |
Laid down | 1 February 1950 |
Launched | 23 April 1952 |
Commissioned | 29 July 1954 |
Decommissioned | 19 December 1969 |
Stricken | 1 May 1974 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 13 June 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Mitscher class destroyer |
Displacement | 4,730 |
Length | 493'0" (150.3 m) |
Beam | 50'0" (15.2 m) |
Draft | 14'0" (4.3 m) |
Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 403 |
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USS Wilkinson (DL-5) was a Mitscher class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Vice Admiral Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson USN (1888–1946).
Wilkinson was laid down by the Shipbuilding Division of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Quincy in Massachusetts on 1 February 1950; originally designated DD-930, she was reclassified as a destroyer leader and designated DL-5 on 9 February 1951, launched on 23 April 1952 by Lady Catherine Moore, the former Mrs. Theodore S. Wilkinson and commissioned on 3 August 1954.