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Dale

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ClassFarragut class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-353
FateAfloat. At Pearl Harbor and not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The first of the 1930s destroyers.

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.

Dale
U.S. Navy. USS Dale (DD-353) underway at sea c1936.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Dale (DD-353) was a Farragut-class destroyer of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941 she was in Pearl Harbor when the base was attacked. She was among the ships present in the harbor that morning. The attack did not sink her. She remained afloat after the strike on the harbor.

She survived the war. The hull that had been at Pearl Harbor on that December day was still in existence when the fighting ended.

Her recorded wartime mark is that single morning in the harbor: a Farragut-class destroyer present for the attack on Pearl Harbor, unsunk, and carried through to the war’s end.

The pictures on this page are the originals.