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Aylwin

Class	Farragut class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-355
Fate	Afloat. Screened Enterprise and Hornet at Midway. Still afloat at the surrender. Decommissioned in 1946.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The first of the 1930s destroyers.
Command	Gulbranson, Clarence Captain, 1 March 1935 – 28 June 1936 Ryan, Dennis Leo Captain from 28 June 1936 Lee, Clarence Vaille Captain from 15 June 1938 Rodgers, Robert Henry Captain, 10 February 1941 – 15 June 1942 Phelan, George Richardson Captain, 15 June 1942 – 7 January 1943 Malpass, Ray Edward Captain, 7 January 1943 – 11 October 1943 Strange, Robert Orris Captain, 11 October 1943 – 31 May 1944 Rogers, William Kittridge Captain, 31 May 1944 – 27 June 1945 Neupert, Karl Frederic Captain, 27 June 1945 – 16 October 1945

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Aylwin was a Farragut-class destroyer, hull DD-355. The Philadelphia Navy Yard launched her on 10 July 1934. She was commissioned on 1 March 1935.

At the Coral Sea she was in the carrier screen. She was not with Crace's cruisers, which had been sent toward the invasion passage. She was not sunk.

At Midway she was in Rear Admiral Spruance's screen, with Enterprise and Hornet. Aircraft crippled Yorktown on 4 June. The submarine I-168 sank the abandoned Yorktown on 7 June. Aylwin was not sunk in that battle.

She came through the war.

Aylwin in camouflage with hull number 355 on the bow — In wartime camouflage. The hull number 355 is on the bow. This is DD-355.