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Conyngham

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ClassMahan class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-371
FateAfloat. Screened Enterprise and Hornet at Midway, and was not sunk there. Still afloat at the surrender. Decommissioned 20 December 1946. Used at Bikini, then sunk as a target off California on 2 July 1948.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The count includes the two Dunlap ships.
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.

Conyngham
US Navy. Destroyer USS Conyngham, 1941.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Conyngham (DD-371) was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Gilbert Corwin Hoover was her captain from 4 November 1936. On 7 December 1941 she lay in Pearl Harbor during the attack. She was not sunk.

At the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942 she served in Spruance's screen. She screened Enterprise and Hornet, and she was not sunk there. Conyngham survived the war. She was still afloat at the surrender. The Navy decommissioned her on 20 December 1946. She was used at Bikini, and on 2 July 1948 she was sunk as a target off California.

The pictures on this page are the originals.