Click on your Rating Symbol above


USS LANSDALE

(DD-426)

Click Here

Click to view crew list
 

DD-426 Deployments - Major Events

Add a DD-426 Shellback Initiation Add a DD-426 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
DEC 1938 Keel Date: 19 DEC 1938
at Boston Navy Yard
OCT 1939 Launch Date: 30 OCT 1939
SEP 1940 Commissioned: 17 SEP 1940
FEB 1944 - APR 1944 Mediterranean
FEB 1944 - APR 1944 Mediterranean-West Africa
APR 1944 - APR 1944 sunk by torpedo dropped by German bomber off Tunisia

DD-426 General Specifications

Class: Benson-class destroyer

Named for: Philip Lansdale

Complement: 191 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 1620 tons

Length: 347 feet 11 inches

Beam: 36 feet 1 inches

Flank Speed: 33 kn

Final Disposition: Sunk by enemy action 20 April 1944