USS Leutze (DD-481) Specifications

Leutze off Puget Sound Navy Yard, 2 April 1944.

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

DATA

Type: Destroyer.
Namesake: Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze, USN.
Navy Classification: DD 481.
Class: DD 445, Fletcher.
Builder: Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.
Keel laid: 3 June 1941.
Launched: 29 October 1942.
Commissioned: 4 March 1944.
Disposition: Decommissioned: 6 December 1945; Stricken: 3 January 1946; Sold for scrap to Thomas Harris, Barker, New Jersey, 17 June 1947.

Length Overall:

Extreme Beam:

Normal Displacement:

Draft:

Designed Complement:

Designed Shaft Horsepower:

Designed Speed:

Screws:

Rudder:

Stacks:

Tactical diameter:

Endurance:

Leutze’s armament was that of a typical Fletcher-class destroyer from 1943–4: five 5-inch guns in single mounts, ten 40mm guns in twin mounts and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes in quintuple mounts plus 20mm guns and depth charges. She returned to the West Coast too late to receive the “1945 refit.”

Primary:

Long-range anti-aircraft:

Short-range anti-aircraft:

Torpedo Tubes:

ASW:

Her electronics were also typical:

Radar:

Sonar:

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