USS McDougal (DD-358)
USS McDougal (DD-358)
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| Name: | USS McDougal |
| Namesake: | Rear Admiral David McDougal |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 18 December 1933 |
| Launched: | 17 July 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 23 December 1936 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 June 1946 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1949 |
| Fate: | Sold 2 August 1949 |
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| Class and type: | Porter-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,850 tons, 2,597 tons full |
| Length: | 381 ft 1 in (116.15 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 11 in (11.25 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
| Propulsion: | 50,000 shp (37,285 kW); Geared Turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 37 knots (69 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,500 nm@ 12 knots (12,000 km@ 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 194 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS McDougal (DD-358/AG-126) was a Porter-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She named for Rear Admiral David Stockton McDougal.
McDougal was laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 18 December 1933; launched 17 July 1936; sponsored by Miss Caroline McDougal Neilson; and commissioned 23 December 1936, Commander Robert C. Starkey in command.
After shakedown, McDougal operated directly under the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations until mid-1937, when she steamed to the Pacific for duty with the Scouting Force and later the Battle Force. Operating out of San Diego, California, she served as flagship for Destroyer Squadron 9. As a heavily armed destroyer leader, she took part in type-training, readiness cruises, and battle problems in the eastern Pacific and in the Caribbean operating area.
McDougal returned to the Atlantic coast with her division in the spring of 1941 to operate along the east coast. Between 5 and 7 August she escorted Augusta carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, where, from 9 to 12 August, he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for the first time to discuss the menace of the Axis Powers and to formulate "common principles" for peace in the postwar world. On 10 August McDougal transported President Roosevelt to and from HMS Prince of Wales during the only meeting of the two leaders on board the battleship. The President and the Prime Minister completed formulation of the eight-point declaration, embodied in the Atlantic Charter, 12 August; thence, both British and American ships departed NS Argentia later that day. McDougal screened Augusta to the coast of Maine 14 August before resuming operation along the eastern seaboard.
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