USS Rhind (DD-404)
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 United States
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| Namesake: | Alexander Colden Rhind |
| Builder: | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 22 September 1937 |
| Launched: | 28 July 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 10 November 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 August 1946 |
| Struck: | 5 April 1948 |
| Fate: | sunk, 22 March 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benham-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,350 tons (full) |
| Length: | 341 ft 3 in |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in |
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| Speed: | 34 knots |
| Complement: | 184 officers and enlisted |
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USS Rhind (DD-404) was a Benham-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Alexander Colden Rhind.
Rhind (DD-404) was laid down 22 September 1937 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched 28 July 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Frederick S. Camp; and commissioned 10 November 1939, Commander G. R. Cooper in command.
Following an extended -shakedown cruise to Brazil and postshakedown availability, Rhind steamed south again and from 5 July to 19 December 1940 conducted exercises in the Caribbean and patrolled off Martinique. Employed as carrier escort and engaged in fleet exercises during the first half of 1941, she joined TF 1 in June and through the northern summer steamed in the North Atlantic shipping lanes on Neutrality Patrol. In August she escorted Augusta (CA-31), with President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked, to Newfoundland for the Atlantic Charter conferences. Then, at their conclusion, she escorted HMS Prince of Wales, carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to Iceland. On 17 August she returned to patrol duty off the Newfoundland coast.
Detached in October, Rhind escorted Yorktown (CV-5) from midocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia in early November, then joined a Halifax-Cape Town convoy as escort. Off Southwest Africa 27 November, she was detailed to escort Ranger (CV-4) to Trinidad. They arrived 3 December. Four days later the United States entered World War II.
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