USS Du Pont (DD-941)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 11 May 1955 |
| Launched: | 8 September 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 March 1983 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking Limited at Brownsville in Texas on 10 February 1999 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,800 tons standard.
4,050 tons full load. |
| Length: | 407 feet waterline, 418 feet overall. |
| Beam: | 45 feet. |
| Draught: | 22 feet. |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 1,200 psi Foster-Wheeler boilers, Westinghouse steam turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots. |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots. |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament: | 3 x 5-inch 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3-inch 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75-inch Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
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USS DuPont (DD-941), named for Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont USN (1809-1866), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine and launched by Mrs. H. B. Du Pont, great-great-grandniece of Rear Admiral Du Pont.