Destroyer Leutze

Leutze

Country	United States
Ship Class	Fletcher-class Destroyer
Builder	Puget Sound Navy Yard
Laid Down	3 Jun 1941
Launched	29 Oct 1942
Commissioned	2 Mar 1944
Decommissioned	6 Dec 1945
Displacement	1,190 tons standard; 2,924 tons full
Length	377 feet
Beam	40 feet
Draft	14 feet
Machinery	General Electric geared turbines with two screws
Power Output	60,000 shaft horsepower
Speed	38 knots
Range	6,500nm at 15 knots
Crew	273
Armament	5x5" guns, 4x1.1" anti-aircraft, 4x20mm anti-aircraft, 10x21" torpedo tubes

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Line drawing of the Fletcher-class destroyer.

Leutze Operational Timeline

2 Mar 1944	Leutze was commissioned into service at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States.
1 Nov 1944	A battleship force on station at the northern entrance to Surigao Strait consisting of battleships USS Mississippi, California, and Pennsylvania screened by cruisers USS Phoenix, Boise, Nashville, and HMAS Shropshire along with destroyers Ammen, Bush, Leutze, Newcomb, Bennion, Heywood L. Edwards, Robinson, Richard P. Leary, Bryant, and Claxton came under an intense Japanese air attacking force that included special attack aircraft. USS Ammen sustained a glancing blow from a Yokosuka P1Y 'Francis' that caused considerable topside damage and killed 5 men. An Aichi D3A 'Val' crashed across Abner Read's main deck as it dropped a bomb down one the destroyer's stacks that exploded in the engine room. Abner Read jettisoned her torpedoes which immediately began their runs toward other ships in the group. Abner Read began sinking by the stern and 20 minutes after the attack, she rolled over and sank. 24 were killed. Meanwhile, Mississippi and Nashville had to take emergency evasive actions to avoid the torpedoes.
6 Dec 1945	Leutze was decommissioned from service.

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