USS Sterett (DD-407)
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 United States
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| Builder: | Charleston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1936 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 15 August 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 25 February 1947 |
| Fate: | sold 10 August 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benham-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1500 tons |
| Length: | 341 ft 3 5/8 in |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 1/8 in |
| Draught: | 17 ft 8 in (5.38 m) |
| Speed: | 40.7 kt |
| Complement: | 251 |
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USS Sterett (DD-407) was a Benham-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for Andrew Sterett.
The Sterett was laid down on 2 December 1936 at the Charleston Navy Yard; launched on 27 October 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Camilla Ridgely Simpson; and commissioned on 15 August 1939, Lieutenant Commander Atherton Macondray in command.
The Sterett departed from Charleston, South Carolina on 28 October 1939 in company with two other newly commissioned destroyers, Mustin and Hughes, for shakedown in the Gulf of Mexico. She visited Veracruz, Cristóbal, Mobile, and Guantanamo Bay before returning to Charleston on 20 December. She underwent post-shakedown overhaul and trials at Charleston until departing on 4 May 1940. Assigned to Destroyer Division 15, Sterett rendezvoused with Hammann at Guantanamo Bay, and the two destroyers steamed for San Diego via the Panama Canal. They arrived in San Diego on 23 May; and, for a month, Sterett divided her time between training and plane-guarding Enterprise. On 24 June, she sailed for Hawaii with Enterprise and five other destroyers, and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 2 July.
She operated out of Pearl Harbor for the next 10 months, participating in a number of exercises and patrols. When Mississippi exited Pearl Harbor on 14 May 1941, the Sterett was in her screen. The warships transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Norfolk on 28 June. Sterett next screened the USS Long Island during the escort carrier's Bermuda shakedown cruise. Sterett concluded 1941 engaged in neutrality patrols with the Wasp.
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