Name: United States Ship Bennett Type: Destroyer Namesake:Warrant Officer Floyd Bennett, USN Navy Classification: DD 473 Class:DD 445, Fletcher Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts Keel laid: 10 December 1941 Launched: 16 April 1942 Commissioned: 9 February 1943 Disposition: Decommissioned: 18 April 1946. Sold to Brazil: 15 December 1959; renamed Paraiba. Sold for scrap: 1978.
