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McCalla

Class	Gleaves class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-488
Builder	Federal, Kearny
Launched	1942-03-20
Commissioned	1942-05-27
Fate	Afloat. Not sunk at Cape Esperance. She took 195 of Duncan's men off the next morning. Decommissioned 17 May 1946. Later transferred to Turkey and scrapped in 1973.
Armament (class)	Split-plant sisters of the Bensons. Five 5-inch guns and two funnels.

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 McCalla (DD-488) was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Federal at Kearny built her. She was launched on 20 March 1942 and commissioned on 27 May 1942.

Her recorded action is the Battle of Cape Esperance on 11 October 1942. That night she was last in Scott's column, stationed astern.

She came through the battle afloat. Cape Esperance did not sink her. The next morning she took 195 of Duncan's men out of the water. McCalla stayed in commission until 17 May 1946, when she was decommissioned. The hull was later transferred to Turkey. She was scrapped in 1973.

The pictures on this page are the originals.