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Cassin

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ClassMahan class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-372
FateAfloat. Wrecked by fire in Dry Dock No. 1 at Pearl Harbor, ahead of Pennsylvania. The hull was rebuilt around salvaged machinery and kept this name and number. This is not Cassin Young.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The count includes the two Dunlap ships.

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.

Cassin
USN. USS Cassin (DD-372) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1937.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Cassin (DD-372) was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941, the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was in Dry Dock No. 1 with the destroyer Downes and the battleship Pennsylvania. Cassin lay ahead of Pennsylvania in that dock.

A bomb damaged her during the attack. Fire in Dry Dock No. 1 wrecked the ship, and she fell over onto Downes.

The machinery was saved. The hull was rebuilt around that salvaged machinery, and the destroyer kept the name Cassin and the number DD-372. She survived the fire and the rebuilding. This ship is not Cassin Young.

The pictures on this page are the originals.