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Perkins

Class	Mahan class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-377
Fate	Sunk. With Crace at Coral Sea, and not sunk there. Second in the destroyer van at Tassafaronga. Lost in a collision with the Australian transport Duntroon on 29 November 1943, off New Guinea.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The count includes the two Dunlap ships.
Command	Jenkins, Samuel P. Captain, 18 September 1936 – 27 May 1938 Vetter, John Peter Captain, 27 May 1938 – 4 June 1940 Wellings, Timothy Francis Captain, 4 June 1940 – 12 October 1941 Bedford, Stephen Ray Captain, 12 October 1941 – 12 December 1941 Ford, Walter Chilcott Captain, 12 December 1941 – 1 March 1943 Ketchum, Gerald Lyle Captain, 1 March 1943 – 29 November 1943

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.

U.S. Navy photo NH 74321. Perkins (DD-377). The hull number 377 is on the bow. Public domain.

Mahan-class destroyer, DD-377. At the Coral Sea she was with Crace's cruisers and was not sunk. At Tassafaronga she was second in the destroyer van, behind Fletcher. On 29 November 1943 she was lost in a collision with the Australian transport Duntroon, off New Guinea.

Perkins in the distance beside Australia during the Coral Sea battle — Coral Sea, 1942. Australia and Perkins. Perkins is one of the ships on the horizon, not the ship that fills the frame. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.