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DD 20 - USS Flusser (HULL 49)

Flusser Class Destroyer for the United States Navy
Length: 293'-10"
Beam: 26'-4 1/2"
Depth: 16'-4"
Draft: 8'-0 1/2"
Displacement: 700 (light ship)
Other Data: 4 Normand boilers, 3 Parsons steam turbines, 14,500 horsepower, 3 screws, 2 masts, 4 stacks. 

Keel laid August 3,1908, launched August 17,1909, delivered September 22,1909, commissioned December 3,1909. Sister ship to the FLUSSER. Maximum shell plate 3/8" thick. 

Reached 34.548 knots on trials. Set a new world speed record for in-service vessels. Complement of 6 officers and 95 enlisted. To the Azores and Brest for World War I as a convoy escort. Returned to the United States at the end of the war. Decommissioned August 1919. Stricken from the United States Navy List September 15,1919. Sold for scrap November 21,1919.

DD 20 - Under Construction - 1909



DD 20 - Launch - July 20, 1909

        
DD 20 - Sea Trials - 1909