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U.S.S. KENDRICK Key West
The Bristol class destroyer U.S.S. Kendrick, DD-612, was launched on
April 2, 1942, and commissioned on September 12, 1942. She was 348.4
feet long, had a 36 foot beam and a twelve foot draft. On September
2, 1943, a German dive bomber launched two torpedoes before being
shot down by the Kendrick's gunners. One torpedo hit the Kendrick's
rudder, damaging her steering compartment. After repairs the
Kendrick provided gunfire in support of troops advancing against the
Germans in Italy. The Kendrick received three battle stars for her
World War II service. She was decommissioned on March 31, 1947. She
was sunk by the Navy as an experiment in March of 1968, ten miles
out of Key West.
According to Billy Deans, she now sits in 325 feet of water and
rises to within 250 feet of the surface. Billy goes on to say that
the wreck sits east to west, is intact and has a hole on her
starboard side. Due to her depth, this is not a wreck for sport
divers and should only be explored by highly experienced
professional divers using mixed gas to breath.
Basic shipwreck
information and images for this section of this site was taken with
permission from the book Florida Shipwrecks by Daniel Berg. You are
invited to submit your shipwreck related articles, images and
information. As long as the text, photographs, sketches etc are of
professional quality we will showcase them. Full credit will be
provided and a same page link to your web site can be arranged.
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