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Cassin Young

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-793
Launched	1943-09-12
Commissioned	1943-12-31
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Museum ship at the former Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Schrieber, E. T. Captain from 31 December 1943

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.

USS Cassin Young (DD-793) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 12 September 1943 and commissioned on 31 December 1943, entering service at the close of that year as a new ship of her class.

E. T. Schrieber became her captain on the day of commissioning. From 31 December 1943 the destroyer was in commission under his command.

At Okinawa on 1 April 1945, a kamikaze damaged Cassin Young. The crashing aircraft hurt the ship, and she stayed afloat after the blow.

Cassin Young survived the war. The kamikaze at Okinawa left her still a ship, and that same hull outlasted the conflict.

She is a museum ship at the former Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. The preserved destroyer remains there for the public, a Fletcher launched in September 1943, commissioned that December with E. T. Schrieber as captain, and damaged by a kamikaze at Okinawa before surviving the war.

The pictures on this page are the originals.