WORLD OF WARSHIPS USS FISKE DD 842 GEARING CLASS DESTROYER

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USS Fiske was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, inventor of the Stadimeter and the aerial torpedo.

Fiske was launched on 8 September 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. F. E. Ribbentrop; and commissioned on 28 November 1945, Commander C. H. Smith in command. Sold to Turkey in 1980, scrapped in 1999.

Armament:
6 5"/38 caliber guns
12 40 mm AA guns
11 20 mm AA guns
10 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
6 depth charge projectors
2 depth charge tracks