USS Porter (DD-356)

USS Porter (DD-356)
History
United States
Builder:	New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down:	18 December 1933
Launched:	12 December 1935
Commissioned:	25 August 1936
Struck:	2 November 1942
Fate:	Scuttled following Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Porter-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,850 tons
Length:	381 ft (116 m)
Beam:	36 ft 2 in (11.02 m)
Draft:	10 ft 5 in (3.18 m)
Propulsion:	50,000 shp (37,285 kW); Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	6,500 nmi. at 12 knots (12,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement:	194
Armament:	As Built: 1 × Mk33 Gun Fire Control System 8 × 5"(127mm)/38cal SP (4×2), 8 × 1.1" (28mm) AA (2x4), 8 × 21"(533mm) torpedo tubes (2x4) c1942: 1 × Mk33 Gun Fire Control System 8 × 5"(127mm)/38cal SP guns (4×2), 2 X 40mm AA (1x2), 6 × 20mm AA (6x1), 2 × Depth Charge stern racks

USS Porter (DD-356) was the lead ship in her class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named for Commodore David Porter and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter.

Porter was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 18 December 1933, launched on 12 December 1935 by Miss Carlile Patterson Porter and commissioned at Philadelphia on 27 August 1936, Commander Forrest B. Royal in command.

After shakedown in waters off Northern Europe, Porter visited St. John's, Newfoundland, for ceremonies in honor of the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1937 and was at the Washington Navy Yard during the Boy Scout Jamboree, June–July 1937. Then reassigned to the Pacific Fleet, she transited the Panama Canal and arrived at San Francisco, California 5 August 1937. She operated continuously with the Pacific Fleet until the outbreak of World War II, homeported at San Diego, California.