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Walke

Class	Sims class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-416
Fate	Sunk. 15 November 1942, the battleship night off Guadalcanal. This is DD-416, not a later Walke. Not pinned to one Japanese ship.
Armament (class)	Five 5-inch guns and one funnel.
Command	Sanders, Carl H. Captain from 27 April 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.

Sims-class destroyer, DD-416, not a later Walke. At the Coral Sea she was with Crace and was not sunk. On 15 November 1942 she was the first of Lee's four destroyers on the battleship night off Guadalcanal. She was sunk in the opening fight. Not pinned to one Japanese ship.

Walke under air attack, a small ship on the horizon — Under air attack during the Coral Sea battle. Walke is the small ship on the horizon. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.