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The USS Charles Ausburne was an American destroyer launched in 1942, belonging to the Fletcher class, whose first units were laid down shortly before
United States entered the Second World War. These new ships were 9.2 meters longer than the preceding from the Bristol class and this space was used
to provide a reasonable antiaircraft armament that was improved over years. The second group of the class had the fire control director in a lower
position and increased antiaircraft armament. The illustration shows the USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570) as she was around 1943; she was
transferred to West Germany in 1960 and renamed Z6 (NATO designation D180), being decommissioned in 1968 and finally scrapped.
Class: Fletcher Group 1 (119 units, including Charles Ausburne); Fletcher Group 2 (62 units)
Type: Destroyer
Length: 114.7 meters
Beam: 12.1 meters
Draught: 5.4 meters
Displacement (standard): 2083 tonnes
Propulsion: 2 x shaft, 2 x steam turbine General Electric, 4 x boiler Babcock and Wilcox, 60000 horsepower
Speed: 37 knots (68.5 kilometers/hour)
Range: 5211 nautical miles (9650 kilometers) at 15 knots
Fuel: 500-533 tonnes of petrol
Complement: 273-336
Armament (initial): 5 x 127-millimeter 38-caliber cannon, 4 x 40-millimeter cannon, 4 x 20-millimeter cannon,
10 x 533-millimeter torpedo tube, 2 x depth charge track
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