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Uss The Sullivans (Dd-537) | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| United States Navy Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 10 October 1942 | | aunched: | 4 April 1943 | | ommissioned: | 30 September 1943 | | ecommissioned: | 7 January 1965 | | truck: | | | ate: | Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park, Buffalo, New York | | 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 NM (12,000 km) @ 15 knot | | omplement: | 329 | | rmament: | 5 × 5 in/38 guns,
10 × 40 mm AA guns,
7 × 20 mm AA guns,
10 × 21 in torpedo tubes | | otto: | The first USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a Fletcher-class destroyer. The ship is named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers - George, Francis, Eugene, Madison, and Albert, aged 19 to 29 - who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in November 1942 in the Battle of the Solomon Islands. This was the greatest sacrifice by any one family during World War II. There was another The Sullivans; see USS The Sullivans (DDG-68). External link The Sullivans 537
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