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Shaw

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ClassMahan class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-373
FateAfloat. Her bow was blown off in the floating drydock YFD-2 at Pearl Harbor. Repaired. Decommissioned in October 1945.
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.

Shaw
Taken by a USS Enterprise (CV-6) photographer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. USS Shaw (DD-373) September 1938.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Shaw (DD-373) was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Her wartime ordeal began in harbor, in a floating drydock, on the morning the Attack on Pearl Harbor opened.

On 7 December 1941 Shaw was in the floating drydock YFD-2 at Pearl Harbor. Bombs set her on fire while she still lay in the dock, and the flames took hold aboard the destroyer.

The forward magazine exploded. The blast destroyed her bow and blew it off in YFD-2, leaving the ship bomb-damaged in the drydock where the attack had found her.

Shaw survived that explosion. She was repaired, the ruined bow made good, and she finished the war after returning to service.

In October 1945 she was decommissioned. The hull that had lost its bow at Pearl Harbor had been restored, had seen the war through, and left the Navy that autumn.

The pictures on this page are the originals.