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Uss Norman Scott (Dd-690) | align="center" colspan="2"| | | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| United States Navy Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 26 April 1943 | | aunched: | 28 August 1943 | | ommissioned: | 5 November 1943 | | ecommissioned: | 30 April 1946 | | truck: | 15 April 1973 | | ate: | sold for scrap,
3 December 1973 | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 2,050 tons | | ength: | 376.4 ft (114.7 m) | | eam: | 39.6 ft (12.1 m) | | raft: | 13.8 ft (4.2 m) | | ropulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW);
2 propellors | | peed: | 38 knot (70 km/h) | | ange: | 6500 nautical miles (12,000 km) @ 15 knot (28 km/h) | | omplement: | 329 | | rmament: | 5 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 guns,
10 × 40 mm AA guns,
7 × 20 mm AA guns,
10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes | | otto: | USS Norman Scott (DD-690), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Norman Scott (1889–1942), an admiral of the US Navy who was killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and awarded the Medal of Honor. Norman Scott was laid down 26 April 1943 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched 28 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Norman Scott; and commissioned 5 November 1943, Commander Seymour D. Owens in command. On 14 January 1944, Norman Scott left Boston escorting Canberra (CA-70) to Pearl Harbor, arriving 1 February. Immediately she gave service in the Marshall Islands Operations, guarding Gambier Bay (CVE-73) to newly-won Majuro. She returned to Pearl Harbor to prepare for the Mariana Islands Operations, during which she escorted heavy bombardment ships as well as conducting fire support missions of her own, during the invasions of Saipan, 15 June, and of Tinian. While firing on the latter 24 June, she was hit by counterfire and lost her captain and 21 others killed, and 50 wounded. Temporary repairs were made at Saipan, and on the 28th she sailed for Pearl Harbor and Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where permanent repairs were completed 21 October. Norman Scott trained her new crew in Hawaiian waters, then sailed for Manus, from which she escorted transports to the Philippines until 9 February 1945. She then joined the fast carrier task forces of the 5th and 3rd Fleets ranging the western Pacific for strikes which supported the assaults on Iwo Jima and on Okinawa. Later in the war, she closed the Japanese home shores as battleships bombarded them. After supporting the occupation of the Japanese naval base at Yokosuka, Norman Scott returned briefly to Okinawa, then proceeded to the west coast, arriving for Navy Day (27 October) celebrations at Tacoma, Wash. After operating out of San Francisco, she decommissioned 30 April 1946 and was berthed in reserve at San Diego, moving in 1947 to Mare Island. Norman Scott was stricken 15 April 1973. She was sold for scrap on 3 December 1973. Norman Scott received 5 battle stars for World War II service.
References External links Norman Scott 690
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