USS Kidd (DD-661)
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The USS Kidd (DD-661) underway, 1951
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| Name: | Kidd |
| Namesake: | Isaac C. Kidd |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 16 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 28 February 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd |
| Commissioned: | 23 April 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 December 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 28 March 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 June 1964 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1974 |
| Nickname(s): | Pirate of the Pacific |
| Honours and awards: |
12 Battle Stars |
| Status: | Museum ship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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| Class and type: | Fletcher class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,050 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 329 |
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USS Kidd (Destroyer)
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Kidd serves as part of the Louisiana Veterans Memorial.
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| Location | Mississippi River near Government St. and River Rd., Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 30°26′38.6″N 91°11′30.21″W / 30.444056°N 91.1917250°WCoordinates: 30°26′38.6″N 91°11′30.21″W / 30.444056°N 91.1917250°W |
| Built | 1943 |
| Architect | US Navy |
| NRHP Reference # | 83000502 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 9 August 1983 |
| Designated NHL | 14 January 1986 |
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action. A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Kidd (DD-661) was launched 28 February 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd, widow of Rear Admiral Kidd, and commissioned 23 April 1943, Commander Allan Roby in command. During her initial cruise to the Brooklyn Naval Shipyards, she sailed across New York Harbor with the Jolly Roger flying from the foremast. Subsequently, during outfitting, her crew adopted the pirate captain William Kidd as their mascot, and commissioned a local artist to paint a pirate figure on the forward smokestack.
After shakedown out of Casco Bay, Maine in June, Kidd cruised in the Atlantic and Caribbean escorting large combatant vessels until she departed for the Pacific in August 1943 in company with Alabama and South Dakota. Arriving at Pearl Harbor 17 September 1943, she got underway 29 September escorting aircraft carriers toward Wake Island for the heavy air attacks conducted 6 October on Japanese installations located there, returning to Pearl Harbor 11 October 1943.
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