USS Mayo (DD-422)
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| Name: | USS Mayo (DD-422) |
| Namesake: | Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo |
| Builder: | |
| Laid down: | 16 May 1938 |
| Launched: | 26 March 1940 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. C. G. Mayo, daughter-in-law of Admiral Mayo |
| Commissioned: | 18 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 March 1946 |
| Refit: | April–July 1944 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1971 |
| Nickname(s): | Mighty Mayo, Mayo Maru |
| Honors and awards: |
2 battle stars, World War II |
| Fate: | sold 8 May 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1620 tons |
| Length: | 374 ft 4 in (114.10 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
| Speed: | 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h; 43.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 191 |
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USS Mayo (DD-422) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo.
Mayo was laid down 16 May 1938 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River, Massachusetts; launched 26 March 1940; sponsored by Mrs. C. G. Mayo, daughter-in-law of Admiral Mayo; and commissioned 18 September 1940, Lieutenant C. D. Emory in command.
Mayo joined the expanding Neutrality Patrol after shakedown and escorted Marines to Iceland in July 1941 as they took protective custody of that key island. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to the Atlantic Charter during the second week in August, Mayo guarded their meeting by patrolling off NS Argentia, Newfoundland.
The formal entrance of the United States into World War II lengthened her convoy assignment beyond the western Atlantic Ocean. Escort of slow merchant convoys out of Boston gave way in summer 1942 to duty with fast troop transports out of New York City. U-boats and bad weather were not the only dangers to be encountered. When Wakefield caught fire 3 September, Mayo swiftly moved alongside the burning ship and removed 247 survivors. With the invasion of North Africa, Mayo appeared at Casablanca, Morocco, 12 November, 4 days after D‑Day, to protect the landing of reinforcements. A retraining period at the end of the year in Casco Bay, Maine, temporarily interrupted convoy assignments.
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