USS Beatty (DD 640)

Casualty List

Navy The US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Bristol 
Pennant DD 640 
Built by Charleston Navy Yard (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.) 
Ordered  
Laid down 1 May 1941 
Launched 20 Dec 1941 
Commissioned 7 May 1942 
Lost 6 Nov 1943 
Loss position was sunk after being torpedoed by a German aircraft off Cape Bougaroun, Algeria in position 37º10'N, 06º00'E.
History USS Beatty (Lt.Cdr. F.C. Stelter)   12 of her crew were lost with the ship