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Reid

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ClassMahan class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-369
FateSunk. At Pearl Harbor, in a nest alongside Whitney, and not hit that morning. Kamikazes sank her on 11 December 1944 while she was escorting a convoy toward Ormoc Bay. Not one plane.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The count includes the two Dunlap ships.

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.

Reid
U.S. Navy. USS Reid (DD-369) at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on 6 September 1942.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Reid (DD-369) was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. On 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, she lay in a nest alongside the tender Whitney. She came through that morning unhit.

On 3 June 1942 her service is dated to the Aleutian Islands. On 6 September 1942 she was at Dutch Harbor.

On 11 December 1944 she was escorting a convoy toward Ormoc Bay. Kamikazes sank her on that passage. The loss is not credited to one plane. Reid was sunk that day, and that was the end of the hull.

The pictures on this page are the originals.