USS Wilson (DD-408)
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| Namesake: | Charles Wilson |
| Builder: | Puget Sound Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 22 March 1937 |
| Launched: | 12 April 1939 |
| Commissioned: | 5 July 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 August 1946 |
| Struck: | 5 April 1948 |
| Fate: | sunk off Kwajalein on 8 March 1948, after atomic testing |
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| Class and type: | Benham-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,250 tons (full) |
| Length: | 340 ft 9 in (103.9 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.8 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 10 in (3.9 m) |
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| Speed: | 38.5 knots (71.3 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 251 officers and enlisted |
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USS Wilson (DD-408), a Benham-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Wilson, a seaman in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Wilson was laid down on 22 March 1937 at Bremerton, Washington, by the Puget Sound Navy Yard; launched on 12 April 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Edward B. Fenner, the wife of Rear Admiral Edward B. Fenner, the Commandant of the 13th Naval District; and commissioned on 5 July 1939, Lt. Comdr. Russell G. Sturges in command.
Wilson operated along the west coasts of the United States, Central and South America into April 1940, when she went to Hawaii to participate in Fleet Problem XXI. In June 1941, after a year mainly spent in the Hawaiian area, Wilson was transferred to the Atlantic. In the last half of that year, and first months of 1942, she served an escort for major fleet units off the U.S. east coast and, in March–May 1942, steamed across the ocean to Iceland and the British Isles.
Wilson returned to the Pacific as part of a task group centered on Wasp, and accompanied it to the south Pacific in July 1942. Early in the next month, she provided bombardment and anti-aircraft services to the invasion force during landings at Guadalcanal and Tulagi. While in that area on 9 August, Wilson engaged Japanese cruisers during the Battle of Savo Island, and later rescued survivors of the sunken cruisers Quincy, Astoria and Vincennes.
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