USS Bennett DD 473

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Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Fletcher 
Pennant DD 473 
Built by Boston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 10 Dec 1941 
Launched 16 Apr 1942 
Commissioned 19 Feb 1943 
End service Struck a mine 7th April 1945 with 7 crew killed.
History  
  Decommissioned 18 April 1946.
Transferred to Brazil on 15 December 1959 being renamed Paraiba.
Paraiba was stricken and scraped in 1978.
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