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Morris

Class	Sims class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-417
Fate	Afloat. Screened Yorktown at Midway, and was not sunk there. A kamikaze wrecked her off Okinawa in April 1945. She was not repaired, and she was still afloat at the surrender.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and one funnel.
Command	Jarrett, H. B. Captain from 5 March 1940

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 Morris (DD-417) was a Sims-class destroyer of the United States Navy. H. B. Jarrett was her captain from 5 March 1940.

She entered the Battle of the Coral Sea with the carrier Yorktown. On 8 May 1942 Morris was in Yorktown's screen, stationed with the destroyers around the carrier. She was not sunk.

On 4 June 1942 she screened Yorktown again, this time at the Battle of Midway. Her station that day was in the carrier's screen. She was not sunk there. On 1 April 1945 Morris was at Okinawa. In April a kamikaze wrecked her off the island. The ship stayed afloat after the kamikaze. She was not repaired. Morris was still afloat at the surrender. She survived the war.

The pictures on this page are the originals.