John R. Pierce..........SHIP SPECIFICATIONS


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ALLEN M. SUMNER CLASS DESTROYER

Displacement: 2,610 tons (3,218 tons Full Load)

Length: 376 feet 10 inches

Beam: 40 feet 10 inches

Draught: 14 feet 2 inches

Machinery: Four Babcock & Wilcox boilers 

two-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines

Performance: 60,000 shp for 36.5 knots

Bunkerage: 504 tons

Range: 3,300 nautical miles at 20 knots

Guns: six 5 inch; twelve 40 mm; eleven 20 mm

Torpedoes: Ten 21 inch