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U.S.S. STORMES DD-780 GENERAL INFO

USS STORMES was an ALLEN M. SUMNER - class destroyer and the first ship in the Navy to bear the name. Decommissioned on December 5, 1970, the STORMES was sold to Iran in February 1972. After modifications at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn., she was commissioned as PALANG (DDG 9) and served in Iran's navy until about 1994.
General Characteristics: Awarded: 1942
Keel laid: February 15, 1944
Launched: November 4, 1944
Commissioned: January 27, 1945
Decommissioned: December 5, 1970
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Wash.
FRAM II Conversion Shipyard: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va.
FRAM II Conversion Period: June 1960 - January 1961
Propulsion system: four boilers, General Electric geared turbines; 60,000 SHP
Propellers: two
Length: 376.3 feet (114.7 meters)
Beam: 41 feet (12.5 meters)
Draft: 18.7 feet (5.7 meters)
Displacement: approx. 3,180 tons full load
Speed: 34 knots
Aircraft after FRAM II: two DASH drones
Armament after FRAM II: three 5-inch/38 caliber twin mounts, two Mk-10 Hedgehogs, Mk-32 ASW torpedo tubes (two triple mounts), two Mk-25 ASW torpedo tubes (removed prior to decommissioning)
Crew before FRAM II: 336


FEB 1944 Keel Date: 15 FEB 1944
at Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle WA
NOV 1944 Launch Date: 4 NOV 1944
JAN 1945 Commissioned: 27 JAN 1945
JUN 1966 - DEC 1966 West Pac
JUN 1966 - JUN 1966 Golden Dragon
JUN 1966 - DEC 1966 Circumnavigation
NOV 1966 - Shellback Initiation - 13 NOV 1966 - Pacific Ocean
NOV 1967 - APR 1968 Mediterranean
AUG 1968 - Shellback Initiation - 7 AUG 1968 - Atlantic Ocean
JAN 1969 - JUN 1969 Mediterranean
DEC 1970 Decommissioned: 5 DEC 1970

Stormes received one battle star for World War II, three for service in Korea, and one for service in Vietnam

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