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USS DALE (DD-353)

CLASS - FARRAGUT As Built.
Displacement 1365 Tons, Dimensions, 341' 3" (oa) x 34' 3" x 16' 4" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 4 x 0.5" MG, 8 x 21" tt.(4x2).
Machinery, 42,800 SHP; Curtis Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.5 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 12 Knots, Crew 160.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York Navy Yard February 10 1934.
Launched January 23 1935 and commissioned June 17 1935.
Decommissioned October 16 1945.
Stricken November 1 1945.
Fate Sold December 20 1946 and broken up for scrap.

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Dale 133kPhoto #: NH 51764, Captain Richard Dale, USN (1756-1826). Mid-Nineteenth Century engraving "by R.W. Dobson from a drawing by J.B. Longacre, after a Portait by J.Wood in Peale's Museum, New York". It was published in James Herring's and James Barton Longacre's "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans", volume 3. Dale commanded the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean Sea during 1801-1802. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Dale 25kUndated, location unknown.-
Dale 67kUndated, location unknown.Robert M. Cieri
Dale 31kUndated, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Dale 109kUSS Dale (DD-353) Photographed by the New York Navy Yard, 22 July 1935. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Joe Radigan
Dale 104kUSS Dale (DD-353) Underway, circa 1935-1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Dale 185kUSS Dale (DD-353) Steaming at sea, circa 1935-1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Dale 85kUSS Dale (DD-353) (left) Leading USS Monaghan (DD-354) through a turn during an exhibition by Destroyer Squadron Twenty ships, staged for Movietone News, off San Diego, California, on 14 September 1936.Courtesy of Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Dale 59kUSS Monaghan (DD-354), USS Dale (DD-353) and USS Worden (DD-352) of DesRon 20 steaming in line abreast for a Movietone News camera, September 1936, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Dale 57kCirca 1937, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Dale 111kUSS Dale (DD-353) At sea, 10 March 1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Dale 134kUSS Dale (DD-353) Operating at sea with the Battle Fleet, circa 1937-1940. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Dale 149kUSS Dale (DD-353) Underway on 28 April 1938. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Fred Weiss
Dale 75kUSS Monaghan (DD 354) and USS Dale (DD 353) coming out of a smoke screen during Fleet Problem XX, held in February 1939 in the Caribbean and off the Northeast coast of South America. USN photo.Joe Radigan
Dale 158kUSS Dale (DD-353) Underway at sea, June 1944, probably during the Marianas operation. Note ships conducting replenishment operations in the distance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Fred Weiss
Dale 144kUSS Dale (DD-353) Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, 5 October 1944. Her camouflage scheme is Measure 31, Design 6d. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.Fred Weiss
Dale 125kUSS Dale (DD-353) Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, 5 October 1944. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 31, Design 6d. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss

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