USS Bennett DD 473

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.