USS Mustin (DD-413)

USS Mustin at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 14 June 1942
History
United States
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding
Laid down:	20 December 1937
Launched:	8 December 1938
Commissioned:	15 September 1939
Decommissioned:	29 August 1946
Struck:	30 April 1948
Honors and awards:	American Defense Service Medal ("Fleet" clasp, "A" device), Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2 stars), World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal ("Japan" clasp)
Fate:	Scuttled off Kwajalein, 18 April 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	Sims-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,570 long tons (1,600 t) (std) 2,211 long tons (2,246 t) (full)
Length:	348 ft, 3¼ in, (106.15 m)
Beam:	36 ft, 1 in (11 m)
Draft:	13 ft, 4.5 in (4.07 m)
Propulsion:	High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 50,000 horsepower
Speed:	35 knots
Range:	3,660 nautical miles at 20 kt (6,780 km at 37 km/h)
Complement:	192 (10 officers/182 enlisted)
Armament:	5 × 5 inch/38, in single mounts 4 × .50 caliber/90, in single mounts 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes in two quadruple mounts 2 × depth charge track, 10 depth charges

USS Mustin (DD-413) was a Sims-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship of that name, in honor of Captain Henry C. Mustin (1874–1923), a pioneer of naval aviation.

Mustin was laid down on 20 December 1937 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; launched on 8 December 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Lloyd M. Mustin, daughter-in-law of Captain Mustin; and commissioned on 15 September 1939, Lieutenant Commander James S. Freeman in command.

Mustin joined the Atlantic Fleet for the tense period of neutrality patrol preceding American entry in World War II, playing her part in guarding the western Atlantic. On 7 December 1941, she lay in overhaul at Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, but put to sea next day escorting Idaho and Mississippi off to war. She herself completed overhaul in Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina on 3 January 1942, transited the Panama Canal on 20 January, and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 17 February for duty escorting convoys between Hawaii and San Francisco, California until 3 April.