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Worden

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ClassFarragut class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-352
FateSunk. Screened Enterprise and Hornet at Midway, and was not sunk there. Lost on 12 January 1943 when she grounded at Constantine Harbor, Amchitka.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The first of the 1930s destroyers.
Command

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.

Worden
U.S. Navy. USS Worden (DD-352) at anchor c1938.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Worden (DD-352) was a Farragut-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The officers recorded in command of her begin in the middle of the 1930s and run without a break to the day the ship was lost.

Robert Earle Kerr was captain from 15 January 1935 to 10 December 1935. Clarence Edward Olsen relieved him that day and stayed until 29 February 1936, when Henry Bryan Broadfoot took the ship. Broadfoot's tour ended on 5 June 1936. Julian DuBois Wilson then commanded Worden until 11 June 1938, Lunsford Yandell Mason until 17 June 1939, and Ransom Kirby Davis from 17 June 1939 to 12 April 1941.

William Grady Pogue became captain on 12 April 1941 and remained in command through the rest of her service. On 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Worden was in the harbor. She came through that day still afloat.

On 8 May 1942 she was at the Battle of the Coral Sea, assigned with the oilers. She again came out of the action afloat.

On 4 June 1942, at the Battle of Midway, Worden was in Spruance's screen and screened the carriers Enterprise and Hornet. She left that battle still a going ship. Her loss was not at Midway.

She was lost on 12 January 1943 in the Aleutian Islands, when she grounded at Constantine Harbor, Amchitka. Pogue's command ended with the hull that day.

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