USS Benham (DD-796)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
Royal Navy ship
gptkbp:armament anti-aircraft guns
10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
5 × 5 in (127 mm) guns
gptkbp:battleStar 5
gptkbp:beam 39 ft 8 in
gptkbp:builder gptkb:Bethlehem_Steel
gptkbp:builtYear gptkb:Staten_Island,_New_York
gptkbp:category gptkb:Fletcher-class_destroyers
World War II destroyers of the United States
Ships built in Staten Island
gptkbp:commissioned 20 February 1944
gptkbp:complement 329 officers and enlisted
gptkbp:decommissioned 20 February 1947
gptkbp:displacement 2,050 tons
gptkbp:draught 17 ft 9 in
gptkbp:fate sold for scrap
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USS Benham (DD-796)
gptkbp:launched 20 December 1943
gptkbp:length 376 ft 6 in
gptkbp:namedAfter Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham
gptkbp:operator gptkb:United_States_Navy
gptkbp:propulsion steam turbines
gptkbp:servedIn gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:speed 35 knots
gptkbp:struck 1 December 1972
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Todd_Shipyard_Corporation
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7