USS Dyson (DD-572)
USS Dyson (DD-572) at Sea 09-30-1944
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Dyson (DD-572) |
| Namesake: | Charles W. Dyson |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 25 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1947 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1974 |
| Fate: | Transferred to West German Navy, 17 February 1960 |
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 West Germany
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| Name: | Zerstörer 5 (D179) |
| Acquired: | 17 February 1960 |
| Struck: | 1982 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Greece for parts, February 1982 |
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| 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 |
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USS Dyson (DD-572) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson (1861–1930).
Dyson was launched 15 April 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Tex., sponsored by Mrs. Charles Dyson, widow of Rear Admiral Dyson; and commissioned 30 December 1942, Commander Roy Alexander Gano in command.
After escort and screening duty along the east coast and to the Caribbean, Dyson sailed from New York 14 May 1943 for the Pacific. She joined Task Force 36 (TF 36) at Nouméa, and served from this base and Espiritu Santo in support of the consolidation of the Solomons, patrolling, and escorting convoys. In August she began operating in the Solomons themselves. On the night of 3/4 September in company with Pringle she intercepted and sank two barges and damaged another between Choiseul and Kolombangara while patrolling to block Japanese movements by water. Later that month on a similar sweep, she fired on an unidentified ship which burned and disappeared from sight.
Returning to Espiritu Santo in October 1943, Dyson with the other ships of famed Destroyer Squadron 23 (DesRon 23) sailed to cover the landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville, and on 1 November made an attack on airfields in the Buka-Monis area and the Shortland Islands to deny their use by the Japanese to attack the Allied landings. That night in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, TF 39 intercepted and turned back a Japanese force sailing to attack the transports in the bay. The torpedo attacks and gunfire of Dyson and the other destroyers were a significant factor in sinking a Japanese cruiser and destroyer, and damaging four other enemy ships.
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