USS Abner Read (DD-769)
Model of USS Gearing (DD-710), a Gearing-class destroyer, Abner Read would have been of this class. Note that the after set of torpedo tubes has already been replaced by a 40 mm quadruple mount in this model. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Abner Read |
| Namesake | Lieutenant commander Abner Read |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down | 21 May 1944 |
| Stricken | 13 September 1946 |
| Identification | Hull symbol: DD-769 |
| Fate | Cancelled 12 September 1946 and scrapped on slip |
| General characteristics (as planned) | |
| Class & type | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.0 m) (overall) |
| Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Installed power | 60,000 shp (45,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 336 officers and enlisted |
| Armament |
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USS Abner Read (DD-769) was a planned United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer laid down during World War II but never completed. The ship was to be the second ship named for Abner Read (1821–1863), a United States Navy officer killed during the American Civil War. She was assigned the name during construction when the first Abner Read (DD-526), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was sunk by a kamikaze during the Battle of Leyte, 1 November 1944.