Builder: Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island Laid Down: July 27, 1942 Launched: February 4, 1943 Commissioned: May 22, 1943 Fate: To Taiwan June 1, 1967* Displacement: 2,325 tons (2,924 tons full) Length: 376 feet 5 inches Beam: 39 feet 7 inches Draught: 13 feet 9 inches Machinery: four Babcock & Wilcox boilers 2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines Performance: 60,000 shp for 38 knots Bunkerage: 492 tons Range: 6,500 nautical miles at 15 knots Guns: five 5 inch; four 1.1 inch; four 20 mm Torpedoes: ten 21 inch Miles Steamed in WW2 140,000 miles Complement 20 Officers 300 men *DDG-918 An Yang (Taiwan) Ex- USS Kimberly DD-521 Ex- Kimberly was decommissioned September 16, 1999 More Everett Richardson: WWII Oral History WWII Veteran Richardson: Introduction WWII Veteran Richardson: Join the Navy, Basic Training WWII Veteran Richardson: Signal School, First Assignment WWII Veteran Richardson: At Sea, At War WWII Veteran Richardson: Discharged, Post-War Years WWII Veteran Richardson: USS Kimberly DD-521 Statistics WWII Veteran Richardson: USS Kimberly World War II Service WWII Veteran Richardson: In Memory of Our Departed Shipmates DD 521 Back to Cry Havoc #30 Table of Contents Back to Cry Havoc List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by David W. Tschanz. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com