The Probert Encyclopaedia of Ships

WELLES

The USS Welles was an American Buchanan Class destroyer of 1630 tons displacement launched in 1942. The USS Welles was powered by four Babcock and Wilcox oil-burning boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots. She carried a complement of 210 and was armed with four 5 inch guns; four 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns; seven 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and five 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in a quintuple arrangements.
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