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DD-799 USS JARVIS

CLASS - FLETCHER As Built.
Displacement 2924 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 5"(oa) x 39' 7" x 13' 9" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 4 x 1.1" AA, 4 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 38 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 15 Knots, Crew 273.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding, Seattle June 7 1943.
Launched February 14 1944 and commissioned June 3 1944.
Decommissioned June 29 1946, recommissioned February 8 1951.
Decommissioned October 24 1960.
Stricken October 1 1972.
To Spain November 3 1960, renamed Alcalá Galiano (hull# 44, reclassified as D 24).
Fate Stricken December 15 1988 and broken up for scrap.
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Jarvis 92kCirca 1954, location unknown.Marc Piché
Jarvis 61kUSS Manatee (AO-58) refueling USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Jarvis (DD-799) off Okinawa, 1960.Bob Herrick
On Spanish Service
Jarvis 144kThe Jarvis in Rota, Spain 1975, she is third from the left. The ship outboard of Jarvis/Alcalá Galiano is the Spanish-designed and built destroyer Oquendo (D 41); that inboard is ex-US destroyer USS Leary (DD 879)/Lángara (D 64), just one twin 5"/38 forward and SPS-29 radar. The largest ship, to the left, is NOT a US-Knox class frigate, but a Spanish Baleares-class guided missile frigate.© Richard Leonhardt
Jarvis 66kAs the Spanish Alcalá Galiano D24, in Rota, Spain. 1987.Edward H. Cleary
USS JARVIS DD-799 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Robert Leek
Address: 6311 Wyoming, St. Louis, MO 63139-2323
Phone: (314)644-3102
E-mail: None

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