USS Heywood L. Edwards (DD-663) Specifications

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Heywood L. Edwards was fitted with the low, square bridge introduced in Brownson. Like other 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers built at Boston Navy Yard her specifications were as follows:

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Name: United States Ship Heywood L. Edwards
Type: Destroyer
Namesake: Lieutenant Commmander Heywood Lane Edwards, USN
Navy Classification: DD 663
Class: DD 445, Fletcher
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Keel laid: 4 July 1943
Launched: 6 October 1943
Commissioned: 26 January 1944
Disposition: Decommissioned: 1 July 1946; Loaned under Military Assistance Program to Japanese Defense Force as Ariake (DD 183): 10 March 1959; Decommissioned: 7 March 1975; Scrapped: Taiwan, 1 July 1976.

Length Overall:

Extreme Beam:

Normal Displacement:

Draft:

Designed Complement:

Designed Shaft Horsepower:

Designed Speed:

Screws:

Rudder:

Stacks:

Tactical diameter:

Endurance:

Heywood L. Edwards’ armament, unchanged during World War II, was that of a typical low-bridge Fletcher-class destroyer from 1943–4: five 5-inch guns in single mounts, ten 21-inch torpedo tubes in two quintuple mounts, ten 40mm guns in five twin mounts, seven 20mm guns in single mounts and depth charges.

Primary:

Long-range anti-aircraft:

Short-range anti-aircraft:

Torpedo Tubes:

ASW:

Her electronics were also typical:

Radar:

Sonar:

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