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Shaw

USS Shaw

Survived

United States Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassMahan
WarSecond World War
Main guns5 × 5″ guns

Her forward magazine blew up in a floating drydock at Pearl Harbor, in one of the best-known photographs of the attack. Given a temporary bow and back at sea by 1942.

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) entering Rio de Janeiro harbor, Brazil, 1 September 1938. Photo: Taken by a USS Enterprise (CV-6) photographer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As Built

  • 1 × Gun Director above bridge
  • 5 × 5"(127 mm)/38 cal DP (5x1)
  • 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) T Tubes (3x4)
  • 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) MG AA (4x1)
  • 2 × Depth Charge stern racks

c. 1944

  • 1 × Mk33 Gun Fire Control System
  • 4 × 5" (127 mm)/38 cal DP (4x1)
  • 2 × Mk51 Gun Directors
  • 4 × Bofors 40 mm AA (2x2)
  • 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm AA (6x1)
  • 2 × Depth Charge roll-off stern racks
  • 4 × K-gun depth charge projectors
BuilderPhiladelphia Naval Shipyard
Laid down1 October 1934
Launched28 October 1935
Commissioned18 September 1936
Displacement1,450 long tons (1,470 t)
Length341.3 ft (104.0 m)
Speed35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Complement204 officers and crew

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

28 October 1935

7 December 1941

Forward magazine blew up

Fate

Survived

Scrapped July 1946