USS Mayo
Service
- as USS Mayo (DD-422)18 September 1940 — 18 March 19461,810 days of the war
- Name
- USS Mayo
- Namesake
- Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 16 May 1938
- Launched
- 26 March 1940
- Commissioned
- 18 September 1940
- Decommissioned
- 18 March 1946
- Struck
- 1 December 1971
- Fate
- Sold 8 May 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,620 long tons (1,646 t)
- Length
- 114 m (374 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h, 43.2 mph)
- Complement
- 191
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Mayo was a Benson-class destroyer built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation laid her keel on 16 May 1938. She entered service on 18 September 1940, having been launched on 26 March 1940.
She was one of 30 ships of her class. The class followed the Sims-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gleaves-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,620 long tons. She measured 114 m (374 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 37.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 191. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,810 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 March 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 5 × 5"/38 (127 mm/38) caliber gun mounts
- 8 × 20 mm AA guns
- 5 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge throwers
Sister ships
- USS Bailey (DD-492)
- USS Bancroft (DD-598)
- USS Barton (DD-599)
- USS Benson
- USS Boyle
- USS Caldwell (DD-605)
- USS Champlin (DD-601)
- USS Charles F. Hughes
- USS Coghlan (DD-606)
- USS Farenholt (DD-491)
- USS Frazier
- USS Gansevoort
- USS Gillespie
- USS Hilary P. Jones
- USS Hobby
- USS Kalk (DD-611)
- USS Kendrick
- USS Laffey (DD-459)
- USS Lansdale (DD-426)
- USS Laub (DD-613)
- USS MacKenzie (DD-614)
- USS Madison (DD-425)
- USS McLanahan (DD-615)
- USS Meade (DD-602)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Mayo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 80-G-456225 available at Destroyerhistory.org . Official U.S. Navy photo NH 107273 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons