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Chew

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ClassWickes class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-106
FateAfloat. Wickes-class destroyer. At Pearl Harbor and not sunk. Stayed in Hawaiian waters.
Armament (class)Flush-deck four-piper. Four funnels.

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.

Chew
USS Chew (DD-106) underway at sea in the Pacific Ocean on 2 August 1945 (80-G-277132).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Chew (DD-106) was a Wickes-class destroyer of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941 she was in Pearl Harbor during the attack on the harbor. She was in the harbor that day and was not sunk. After the attack she stayed in Hawaiian waters.

Chew survived. She remained the same Wickes-class destroyer that had been present at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and that had stayed in Hawaiian waters.

The pictures on this page are the originals.