USS Porter (DD-356)
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Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down: | 18 December 1933 |
Launched: | 12 December 1935 |
Commissioned: | 25 August 1936 |
Struck: | 2 November 1942 |
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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) |
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Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
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Complement: | 194 |
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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.