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Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign -NIZD
CLASS - FLETCHER As Built.
Displacement 2924 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 5"(oa) x 39' 7" x 13' 9" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 6 x 40mm, 10/11 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 38 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 15 Knots, Crew 273.
Operational and Building Data
Built by Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island, NY (YN 8028)
Laid down 27 July 1942
Launched 03 February 1943
Commissioned 22 May 1943
Decommissioned 05 February 5 1947
Recommissioned 08 February 1951
Decommissioned 16 January 1954
Stricken 25 January 1974
 To Taiwan 01 June 1967, renamed Ān Yáng [安陽]
Decommissioned at Kaohsiung, 16 September 1999
FateSunk as a torpedo target by submarine ROCS Hailong 14 October 2003
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 | 67k | Lewis Ashfield Kimberly was born 22 April 1838, in Troy, N.J., and was appointed a Midshipman 8 December 1946. From 1847 to 1860 he was in the African, Pacific, and East India Squadrons. During the Civil War he served on Potomac in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and took part in the Mississippi River operations at Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, and Vicksburg. He was Executive Officer of Hartford, in the Battle of Mobile Bay, and was warmly commended for gallant and efficient service.During the period 1866 to 1889 he cruised in European, Atlantic, Pacific, and East Indian waters. He commanded Canonicus, Monongahela, and Omaha, before assuming the Presidency of the Naval Examining Board in 1885 with the rank of Commodore. On 11 April 1887, he took command of the Asiatic Station, and 2 months later was promoted to Rear Admiral. While Commander in Chief of the Pacific station, he was unable to save his flagship Trenton for a violent typhoon which struck Samoa 15 to 17 March 1889. Guiding his men with the inspiring words, "If we go down, let us do so with our flag flying," Kimberly skillfully beached his flagship, losing only one man in the raging storm that wrecked Trenton. Following his return to the United States in January 1890, Rear Admiral Kimberly was appointed President, Board of Inspection and Survey; and he held that post until retirement in April 1892. Rear Admiral Kimberly died in West Newton, Mass., 28 January 1902.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 48586, courtesy of the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 1935. | Tony Cowart | | |
 | 138k | Undated, location unknown. Probably taken from the deck of LST-647 somewhere around Okinawa. | Terry Smith |  | 137k | Amidships looking aft plan view of the USS Taylor (DD-468) in San Francisco on 20 January 1944. The USS Kimberly (DD-521) is at the opposite pier with an unidentified oiler on the opposite side of Kimberly. | Darryl Baker |  | 98k | Bow on view of USS Kimberly (DD-521) departing Mare Island on 6 October 1944. | Darryl Baker |  | 101k | Broadside view of USS Kimberly (DD-521) off Mare Island on 6 October 1944. | Darryl Baker |  | 94k | Stern view of USS Kimberly (DD-521) departing Mare Island on 6 October 1944. | Darryl Baker |  | 108k | Forward plan view of USS Kimberly (DD-521) outboard of USS Young (DD-580) at Mare Island on 26 June 1945. | Darryl Baker |  | 159k | Aft plan view of USS Kimberly (DD-521) outboard of USS Young (DD-580) at Mare Island on 26 June 1945. | Darryl Baker |  | 170k | USS Kimberly (DD-521), looking forward, while the ship was at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 26 June 1945. Note the cap of her forward smokestack, and the antenna for her SC-2 air search radar atop the foremast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph from the collections of the U.S. National Historical Center. Photo # NH 99746. | Robert Hurst |  | 78k | Taken from Missouri (BB-63) while underway, 05 October 1945. | Greg Skidmore |  | 91k | USS Missouri as seen across the fantail of the USS Kimberly (DD-521) while enroute ot the Panama Canal, 11 October 1945. | Edward H. Cleary |  | 89k | Kimberly passing under the Cooper River Bridge, Charleston, SC, fall 1945. Her name painted amidship indicates she is returning from the Navy Day parade at New York City in October 1945. | Charles Good / Ed Grune |  | 65k | At San Francisco, CA, circa 1945. | Marc Piché |  | 121k | Off Charleston, SC, February 1951, submitted in memory of Korean War crewman Joseph Fedynich. | Jonathan Gabel/Donald E. Pribble |  | 126k | Photograph from Donald E. Pribble, who was Yeoman/Personnelman aboard the Kimberly, June 1951-January 1954. | Donald E. Pribble | 
| 113k | Kimberly (DD-521) underway, probably off Charleston Navy Yard after her 1951-52 recommissioning/refit. Framed photo given to GM3 William H. Reinbott upon his discharge from the Navy. Photo submitted by his son, Rick Reinbott. | Rick Reinbott |  | 113k | As above. | Donald E. Pribble |  | 143k | A great idea done by Don's daughter in honor of her father. | Donald E. Pribble | | |
 | 80k | Ship's patch. | Gerd Matthes | | |
 | 107k | Ān Yáng (D 19) underway, location unknown. Courtesy of Toshio Tamura. | Robert Hurst |  | 64k | In Taiwanese service, circa 1969. | Marc Piché |  | 81k | Newsphoto of the sinking of the Ān Yáng in the Southwest small Ryukyu Islands sea area, October 14 2003. | - |  | 14k | As above | - |  | 36k | As above | - |
USS KIMBERLY DD-521 History
View This VesselsDANFS History entry at the Naval History & Heritage Command website
| | 01 | CDR Harry Smith (USNA 1930) | 22 May 1943 - 25 October 1944 | | 02 | CDR James Dickson Whitfield, Jr. (USNA 1930) | 25 October 1944 - 10 January 1946 | | 03 | LCDR Dale Calvin Reed (USNA 1942) | 10 January 1946 - 01 August 1946 | | 04 | LCDR Donald W. Gardner USN | 01 August 1946 - 05 February 1947 | | | Decommissioned | 05 February 1947 - 08 February 1951 | | 05 | CDR Oscar Blair Parker (USNA 1938) | 08 February 1951 - 13 December 1953 | | 06 | CDR Charles Whitacre Cushman (USNA 1939) | 13 December 1953 - 16 January 1954 |
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves |
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: George G. Scott, RMCS USN (Ret)
Address: 8351 Sylvan Drive, West Melbourne, FL 32904-2421
Phone: 321-676-2307
E-mail:ggs33@aol.com
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