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Macdonough

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ClassFarragut class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-351
FateAfloat. At Pearl Harbor and not sunk. Still afloat at the end of the war.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The first of the 1930s destroyers.
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.

Macdonough
USN. USS Macdonough (DD-351) at sea in January 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Macdonough (DD-351) was a Farragut-class destroyer of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941 she was at Pearl Harbor. The attack that morning found her in the harbor, and she came through it still afloat. Captain Erle Van Emburgh Dennett commanded the destroyer from 27 May 1942 until 23 September 1943.

Macdonough survived the war. She was still afloat when the fighting ended, the same ship that had been in the harbor on 7 December 1941.

The pictures on this page are the originals.