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Blue

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ClassBagley class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-387
FateNot recorded. Radar picket southwest of Savo Island. Mikawa's column passed her unseen. Not sunk in this battle.
Armament (class)Four 5-inch guns, one funnel, and sixteen torpedo tubes.
Command

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.

Blue
Forecastle and bridge of USS Blue (DD-387) and USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 11 April 1942 (19-N-29229).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Blue (DD-387) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy. J. Wright was her captain from 14 August 1937.

On 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Blue was in the harbor. She was still afloat when the attack ended.

On 9 August 1942 she was at the Battle of Savo Island. She was on radar picket southwest of Savo Island, on the southern side of the island. Mikawa's column passed very near her. The ships went by unseen, and Blue did not sight them.

In the morning she helped take Canberra's crew off. Blue was still afloat when the battle ended and was not sunk in it.

The pictures on this page are the originals.