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USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767)
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| Career |  |
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| Laid down: | 3 April 1944 |
| Launched: | |
| Struck: | 9 June 1958 |
| Status: | sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,425 tons |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119 m) (overall) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 1 in (12.5 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW); geared turbines; 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi. at 20 knots (8,300 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in.(127 mm)/38 guns, 12 × 40 mm AA guns, 11 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in. torpedo tubes, 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Seymour D. Owens (DD-767) was scheduled to be a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Seymour D. Owens.
Seymour D. Owens was laid down on 3 April 1944 by the Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco, California, and was assigned the name Seymour D. Owens on 8 January 1945. Seymour Owens was the captain of the destroyer USS Norman Scott DD690. He was killed in action off the coast of Tinian aboard the Norman Scott on July 24, 1944. Since she was incomplete at the end of the war, further construction was cancelled on 7 January 1946, and the incomplete ship was delivered to the Navy on 28 February 1947. Portions of her hull were used to repair USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838). The remainder of her hull was then berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet where it remained until sold for scrapping to the National Metal and Steel Co., on 23 March 1959. The name Seymour D. Owens was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 June 1958.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.