USS McCall (DD-400)
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USS McCall (DD-400) underway, circa 1938
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| Name: | McCall |
| Namesake: | Edward R. McCall |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation - Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 17 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 1938 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 28 January 1947 |
| Identification: | DD-400 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
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| Class and type: | Gridley-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,500 tons |
| Length: | 341 ft 4 in (104.04 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.80 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | 50,000 shp (37,000 kW) Bethlehem geared turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 184 |
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The second USS McCall (DD-400) was a Gridley-class destroyer in the United States Navy named after Captain Edward McCall, an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Launched in 1937, she saw service throughout World War II, including in the Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of the Philippine Sea, and other battles, earning 9 battle stars for her service. She was struck from the rolls in 1947 scrapped the following year.
McCall (DD-400) was laid down on 17 March 1936 at the Union Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California and launched on 20 November 1937; sponsored by Miss Eleanor Kempff. The ship was commissioned on 22 June 1938, Lieutenant Commander John Whelchel in command.
Assigned to the Pacific, McCall reported for duty in Destroyers, Battle Force, 16 January 1939. Less than two years later, on 7 December 1941, she was steaming with the aircraft carrier Enterprise en route to Pearl Harbor from Wake Island when she received word of the Japanese attack on the former. McCall's task force (TF 8) immediately commenced a search for the Japanese Fleet. By the time the force returned to Pearl Harbor only one Japanese vessel had been sighted, the submarine Japanese submarine I-70 which was sunk by the force's aircraft on 10 December. For the remainder of 1941 McCall, in the screen of Enterprise, stayed in the Hawaiian Islands area to guard against follow-up attack.
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