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Helm

Class	Bagley class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-388
Fate	Afloat. Northern destroyer at Savo Island. She fired and was not hit. Still afloat at the surrender. Decommissioned 26 June 1946. Sold for scrap on 2 October 1947.
Armament (class)	Four 5-inch guns, one funnel, and sixteen torpedo tubes.
Command	Talbot, Paul H. Captain from 16 October 1937

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 Helm (DD-388) was a Bagley-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Paul H. Talbot was her captain from 16 October 1937.

On the morning of 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Helm was underway near West Loch. Bombs falling close aboard damaged her with near misses. The ship remained afloat.

On 9 August 1942 she was the northern destroyer at the Battle of Savo Island, on the northern patrol with Wilson. She fired at the Japanese cruisers and came through the action without a hit. Helm survived the war. She was still afloat at the surrender. The Navy decommissioned her on 26 June 1946. On 2 October 1947 the hull was sold for scrap.

The pictures on this page are the originals.