USS Cushing (DD-376)
Cushing off the Puget Sound Navy Yard during her pre-commissioning trials period in July 1936.
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| Name: | Cushing |
| Namesake: | William Barker Cushing |
| Builder: | Puget Sound Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 15 August 1934 |
| Launched: | 31 December 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 28 August 1936 |
| Identification: | DD-376 |
| Fate: | Sunk during Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. |
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| Class and type: | Mahan-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,500 tons |
| Length: | 341 ft 4 in (104.0 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 0 in (10.7 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in (3.0 m) |
| Speed: | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
| Complement: | 158 |
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USS Cushing (DD-376) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was the third Navy ship named for Commander William Barker Cushing (1842–1874).
Cushing was launched on 31 December 1935 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard and sponsored by Miss. K. A. Cushing, daughter of Commander Cushing. The ship was commissioned on 28 August 1936, with Commander E. T. Short in command and reported to the Pacific Fleet.
Cushing joined the search in the Hawaiian Islands and at Howland Island, for the missing aviator Amelia Earhart from 4 to 30 July 1937, then returned to San Diego, California for training exercises, tactics, and fleet problems. Except for brief periods of training at Pearl Harbor and one cruise to the Caribbean, she cruised the west coast from San Diego for exercises and training.
Undergoing overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, Cushing sailed from San Francisco, California 17 December 1941 for convoy escort duty between the West Coast and Pearl Harbor until 13 January 1942. She sailed to Midway to serve on antisubmarine patrol from 18 January to 2 February, then returned to San Francisco 19 February to screen TF 1 off the California coast in training and patrol duty.
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