Name: USS Ellyson (DD-454)
Namesake: Theodore Gordon Ellyson
Builder: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down: 20 December 1940
Launched: 26 July 1941
Commissioned: 28 November 1941
Reclassified: DMS-19, 15 November 1944
Decommissioned: 19 October 1954
Fate: To Japan, 19 October 1954
Struck: 1 February 1970
Career (Japan)
Name: JDS Asakaze (DD-181)
Acquired: 19 October 1954
Fate: Returned to U.S., 1970; sold to Republic of China, August 1970 and cannibalized for spare parts
General characteristics
Class and type: Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement: 1,630 tons
Length: 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam: 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft: 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion: 50,000 shp (37 MW);
4 boilers;
2 propellers
Speed: 37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range: 6,500 nautical miles at 12 kt
(12,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement: 16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament: 5 Ã? 5 in (127 mm) DP guns,
6 Ã? 0.5 in. (12.7 mm) guns,
6 Ã? 20 mm AA guns,
10 Ã? 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes,
2 Ã? depth charge tracks