USS Mahan (DD-364)
Mahan at sea c. 1938
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| Name: | USS Mahan |
| Namesake: | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
| Builder: | United Dry Docks Inc., Staten Island, New York |
| Laid down: | 12 June 1934 |
| Launched: | 15 October 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 18 September 1936 |
| Identification: | DD-364 |
| Fate: | Disabled by Japanese kamikaze; sunk by US destroyer on 7 December 1944. |
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| Class and type: | Mahan-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 341.3 ft (104.0 m) |
| Beam: | 35.6 ft (10.9 m) |
| Draft: | 10 feet 7 inches (3.2 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 General Electric steam turbines |
| Speed: | 37 kn (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
| Range: | 6,940 nmi (12,850 km; 7,990 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 158 officers and enlisted men |
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USS Mahan (DD-364) was the lead ship of the United States Navy's Mahan-class destroyers. The ship was named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, a 19th-century naval historian and strategic theorist. Her design ushered in major advances over traditional destroyers. Among them were a third set of quadruple torpedo tubes, protective gun shelters, and emergency diesel generators. Along with a steam propulsion system that was simpler and more efficient to operate.
Mahan began her service in 1936. She was first assigned to the US Atlantic Fleet and then transferred to Pearl Harbor in 1937. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Mahan was at sea with Task Force 12. The task force's mission to Midway Island was aborted to participate in the post-attack search for the enemy strike force. Unable to locate it, the task force returned to Pearl Harbor.
Early in World War II, Mahan took part in raids on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Admirals Chester Nimitz and William Halsey commended the destroyer group (of which Mahan was a member) for a stellar effort in screening the aircraft carriers Hornet and Enterprise against heavy odds. During the New Guinea campaign to take the northeast coast from the Japanese, Mahan was engaged in the amphibious landings at Salamaua, Lae, and Finschhafen. She participated in landings at Arawe and Borgen Bay (near Cape Gloucester), New Britain, and provided support for the troop landing at Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands.
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