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USS Erben underway in the 1950s
Class overview
Name	Fletcher class
Builders	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey Bath Iron Works Boston Navy Yard Charleston Navy Yard Consolidated Steel Corporation Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation Bethlehem Shipbuilding, San Pedro, California, Terminal Island Bethlehem Shipbuilding, San Francisco California Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Staten Island, New York Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Operators	United States Navy Argentine Navy Brazilian Navy Chilean Navy Colombian National Navy Hellenic Navy Italian Navy Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mexican Navy Peruvian Navy Republic of Korea Navy Spanish Navy Republic of China Navy Turkish Navy German Navy
Preceded by	Gleaves class
Succeeded by	Allen M. Sumner class
Subclasses	Ariake class Zerstörer 1 class Fante class Lepanto class Chungmu class
Cost	$6 million
Built	3 March 1941 to 22 February 1945
In commission	4 June 1942 to 1971 (USN), 2001 (Mexico)
Completed	175
Cancelled	13
Lost	19, plus 6 not repaired
Preserved	USS Cassin Young (DD-793) USS The Sullivans (DD-537) USS Kidd (DD-661) Greek destroyer Velos
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	2,100 long tons (2,134 t) (Standard load) 2,544 long tons (2,585 t) (Full load)
Length	376.5 ft (114.8 m)
Beam	39.5 ft (12.0 m)
Draft	17.5 ft (5.3 m)
Propulsion	60,000 shp (45,000 kW); 4 oil-fired boilers; 2 geared steam turbines; 2 screws
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	2 × lifeboats
Complement	329 officers and enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	SC surveillance radar SG air-search radar
Armament	Varied; see § Armament

The Fletcher class was a group of 175 destroyers ordered for the United States Navy between 1942 and 1944. They were the first class of US destroyers to be designed and constructed without consideration of interwar treaty limitations.

Specifications

Technical drawing of a Fletcher-class destroyer

Construction

175 Fletcher-class destroyers were built in 11 shipyards on both coasts of the United States.

Ships of the class

Main article: List of Fletcher-class destroyers

Hull numbers	Names
445—451	Fletcher, Radford, Jenkins, La Vallette, Nicholas, O'Bannon, Chevalier
465—481	Saufley, Waller, Strong, Taylor, De Haven, Bache, Beale, Guest, Bennett, Fullam, Hudson, Hutchins, Pringle, Stanly, Stevens, Halford, Leutze
498—502	Philip, Renshaw, Ringgold, Schroeder, Sigsbee
507—522	Conway, Cony, Converse, Eaton, Foote, Spence, Terry, Thatcher, Anthony, Wadsworth, Walker, Brownson, Daly, Isherwood, Kimberly, Luce
526—541	Abner Read, Ammen, Mullany, Bush, Trathen, Hazelwood, Heermann, Hoel, McCord, Miller, Owen, The Sullivans, Stephen Potter, Tingey, Twining, Yarnall
544—547	Boyd, Bradford, Brown, Cowell
550—597	Capps, David W. Taylor, Evans, John D. Henley, Franks, Haggard, Hailey, Johnston, Laws, Longshaw, Morrison, Prichett, Robinson, Ross, Rowe, Smalley, Stoddard, Watts, Wren, Aulick, Charles Ausburne, Claxton, Dyson, Harrison, John Rodgers, McKee, Murray, Sproston, Wickes, William D. Porter, Young, Charrette, Conner, Hall, Halligan, Haraden, Newcomb, Bell, Burns, Izard, Paul Hamilton, Twiggs, Howorth, Killen, Hart, Metcalf, Shields, Wiley
629—631	Abbot, Braine, Erben
642—644	Hale, Sigourney, Stembel
649—691	Albert W. Grant, Caperton, Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp, Bearss, John Hood, Van Valkenburgh, Charles J. Badger, Colahan, Dashiell, Bullard, Kidd, Bennion, Heywood L. Edwards, Richard P. Leary, Bryant, Black, Chauncey, Clarence K. Bronson, Cotten, Dortch, Gatling, Healy, Hickox, Hunt, Lewis Hancock, Marshall, McDermut, McGowan, McNair, Melvin, Hopewell, Porterfield, Stockham, Wedderburn, Picking, Halsey Powell, Uhlmann, Remey, Wadleigh, Norman Scott, Mertz
792—804	Callaghan, Cassin Young, Irwin, Preston, Benham, Cushing, Monssen, Jarvis, Porter, Colhoun, Gregory, Little, Rooks

Sources

• Friedman, Norman (1982). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-733-X.
• Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-913-8.
• Hodges, Peter; Friedman, Norman (1979). Destroyer Weapons of World War II. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-929-4.
• McComb, Dave (2010). US Destroyers 1942–45: Wartime Classes. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-444-2.