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Dewey

Class	Farragut class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-349
Fate	Afloat. Guarded the oilers at Midway. Still afloat at the surrender. Decommissioned in 1946.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The first of the 1930s destroyers.
Command	Hill, H. W. Captain from 4 October 1934

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.

Dewey was a Farragut-class destroyer, hull DD-349. Bath Iron Works launched her at Bath, Maine, on 28 July 1934. She was commissioned on 4 October 1934.

At the Coral Sea she was in the carrier screen. She was not with Crace's cruisers on the run toward the invasion passage. She was not sunk.

At Midway she was not in the carrier screen. With the destroyer Monssen she guarded the oilers Cimarron and Platte while the carriers fought. She was not sunk.

She came through the war.

Dewey underway about 1935 with hull number 349 on the bow — Underway about 1935. The hull number 349 is on the bow. The print is thought to show the Panama Canal.