USS Cassin Young

USS Cassin Young (DD-793)

USS Cassin Young berthed at Boston Navy Yard, 2007
History
United States
Name:	Cassin Young
Namesake:	Cassin Young
Builder:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Pedro, California
Laid down:	18 March 1943
Launched:	12 September 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. C. Young
Commissioned:	31 December 1943
Decommissioned:	28 May 1946
Recommissioned:	8 September 1951
Decommissioned:	29 April 1960
Struck:	1 December 1974
Identification:	DD-793
Honours and awards:	Navy Unit Commendation Seven Battle Stars
Status:	Museum ship at the former Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,050 tons
Length:	376.4 ft (114.7 m)
Beam:	39.6 ft (12.1 m)
Draft:	13.8 ft (4.2 m)
Propulsion:	4 oil-fired boilers, 2 geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45,000 kW)
Speed:	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range:	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	325
Armament:	(as built) 5 x 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns 5 x twin 40 mm AA guns 7 x 20 mm AA guns 2 x quintuple 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes 6 x K-gun depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge tracks (as preserved) 5 x 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns, 2 x quad 40 mm AA guns 1 x twin 40 mm AA guns 1 x quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 x torpedo carriages for the Mark 32 torpedo, 2 x Hedgehog ASW mortar, 1 x depth charge track
USS Cassin Young (destroyer)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′20″N 71°03′16″W / 42.37222°N 71.05444°W / 42.37222; -71.05444Coordinates: 42°22′20″N 71°03′16″W / 42.37222°N 71.05444°W / 42.37222; -71.05444
Built	1943
Architect	Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Architectural style	Other, Fletcher-class destroyer
NRHP Reference #	86000084
Added to NRHP	14 January 1986

USS Cassin Young (DD-793) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named for Captain Cassin Young (1894–1942), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who was killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942.

Cassin Young (DD-793) was launched 12 September 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Corp., San Pedro, California; sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Young; and commissioned on 31 December 1943, Commander E. T. Schrieber in command.

After serving in World War II, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of Okinawa, Cassin Young was decommissioned, but was reactivated during the Korean War and continued in active service until 1960. She is preserved today as a memorial ship, berthed at Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts, across from the old warship USS Constitution. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of only four surviving Fletcher-class destroyers still afloat.

Cassin Young arrived at Pearl Harbor 19 March 1944 to complete her training before sailing on to Manus, where she joined the massive Fast Carrier Task Force (then called TF 58, at other times called TF 38, depending on whether the overall organization was called 5th Fleet or 3rd Fleet). On 28 April, this force sortied for air attacks on Japanese strongholds at Truk, Woleai, Satawan, and Ponape, during which Cassin Young operated as a picket ship, assigned to warn her group of possible enemy counterattack.