USS Case (DD-370)

Case steaming off Mare Island on 23 November 1943
History
United States
Namesake:	Augustus Ludlow Case
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard
Launched:	14 September 1935
Commissioned:	15 September 1936
Decommissioned:	13 December 1945
Fate:	sold 31 December 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:	Mahan-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,500 tons
Length:	341 ft 4 in (104 m)
Beam:	35 ft (10,7 m)
Draft:	9 ft 10 in (2,8 m)
Speed:	37 knots
Complement:	158 officers and crew
Armament:	5 x 5 in (130 mm) guns, 12 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Case (DD-370) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was the second ship named for Augustus Ludlow Case.

Case was launched at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, on 14 September 1935. She was sponsored by Miss. M. R. Case and commissioned on 15 September 1936, with Commander J. S. Roberts in command. Case was berthed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck on 7 December 1941; then served in the Pacific Fleet until the end of World War II.

Case joined in fleet problems in the Hawaiian area, and in 1938, served as school ship at San Diego, California. From this, her home port, she carried midshipmen on an Alaskan cruise in summer 1939, and in April 1940 returned to Pearl Harbor to take part in a fleet problem which found her sailing to Midway, Johnston Island, and Palmyra Island. Between February and April 1941, she cruised to Samoa, Tahiti, and Auckland, New Zealand.

Case was in a nest of destroyers at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 7 December 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor. From 7 December until 23 May 1942, Case escorted convoys passing between the west coast and Pearl Harbor.