USS Mahan (DD-364)
Service
- as USS Mahan18 September 1936 — 7 December 19441,924 days of the war
- Name
- USS Mahan
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-364
- Namesake
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Builder
- United Dry Docks Inc., Staten Island, New York
- Laid down
- 12 June 1934
- Launched
- 15 October 1935
- Commissioned
- 18 September 1936
- Fate
- Disabled by Japanese kamikaze; sunk by US destroyer on 7 December 1944.
By aircraft (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,500 long tons (1,524 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,725 long tons (1,753 t)
- Length
- 104.03 m (341.3 ft)
- Beam
- 10.85 m (35.6 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,940 nmi (12,853 km)
- Complement
- 158
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Mahan was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number DD-364. The ship was named after Alfred Thayer Mahan. Her keel was laid at United Dry Docks Inc., Staten Island, New York on 12 June 1934. She entered service on 18 September 1936, having been launched on 15 October 1935.
She was one of 18 ships of her class. The class followed the Porter-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gridley-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,500 long tons standard and 1,725 long tons at full load. She measured 104.0 m (341 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 158. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 46,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,924 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 7 December 1944 by aircraft, at 10°50′N 124°30′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 General Electric steam turbines
- Power
- 46000 shp
- 4 Babcock & Wilcox or Foster Wheeler boilers
- Armament
- (as built)
- 5 × 5 inch (127mm)/38cal DP (5×1)
- 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (3×4)
- 4 × .50 cal (12.7mm) Machine guns (4×1)
- 2 × depth charge stern racks
- (1942)
- 4 × 5 inch (127mm)/38cal DP (4x1)
- 12 × 21 inch (533mm) torpedo tubes (3x4)
- 2 × Bofors 40 mm guns (2x2)
- 5 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons (5x1)
- 2 × depth charge stern racks
Sister ships
- USS Case (DD-370)
- USS Cassin (DD-372)
- USS Conyngham (DD-371)
- USS Cummings (DD-365)
- USS Cushing (DD-376)
- USS Downes (DD-375)
- USS Drayton (DD-366)
- USS Dunlap
- USS Fanning (DD-385)
- USS Flusser (DD-368)
- USS Lamson (DD-367)
- USS Perkins (DD-377)
- USS Preston (DD-379)
- USS Reid (DD-369)
- USS Shaw (DD-373)
- USS Smith (DD-378)
- USS Tucker (DD-374)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Mahan (DD-364) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd364.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g460000/g466572.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons