German destroyer Z-1 (D170)

USS Anthony (DD-515) off Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 8 December 1944
History
United States
Name:	USS Anthony
Namesake:	William Anthony
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	17 August 1942
Launched:	20 December 1942
Commissioned:	26 February 1943
Decommissioned:	17 April 1946
Struck:	15 April 1972
Identification:	DD-515
Fate:	Transferred to West Germany, 17 January 1958
West Germany
Name:	Zerstörer 1
Acquired:	17 January 1958
Struck:	1976
Identification:	D170
Fate:	Sunk as a target, 16 May 1979
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,050 long tons (2,080 t)
Length:	376 ft 6 in (114.76 m)
Beam:	39 ft 8 in (12.09 m)
Draft:	17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)
Propulsion:	60,000 shp (45 MW) ; 2 propellers
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	329
Armament:	As USS Anthony: 5 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. guns 10 × 40 mm AA guns 7 × 20 mm AA guns 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks As Zerstörer 1: 4 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. guns 6 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal. AA guns 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 x 21 in (533 mm) ASW torpedo tubes 2 × Hedgehog launchers 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Anthony (DD-515), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Marine Sergeant Major William Anthony (1853–1899).

Anthony was laid down on 17 August 1942 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 20 December 1942; sponsored by Miss Alice Anthony and Miss Frances Anthony, granddaughters of Sergeant Major William Anthony; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, on 26 February 1943, Lieutenant Commander Blinn Van Mater in command.

The destroyer got underway on 26 March for a shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and arrived back in Boston on 27 April for a tender availability. She then headed for Norfolk, Virginia but departed Hampton Roads on 10 May, bound for the Pacific. After transiting the Panama Canal, Anthony joined the Pacific Fleet and arrived in Pearl Harbor on 31 May.

Two months of intensive training for the destroyer ensued. She left Hawaiian waters on 5 August in the screen of a convoy bound, via Pago Pago, Samoa, for Efate Island, New Hebrides. Anthony dropped anchor off Efate on 27 August.