Yesterday was at a slope of the yard of the United Dry Dock Company at Staten Island the destroyer Mahan launched.(1)
Note
1. The DD 364 of the Mahan-class. The shipbuilding company was later renamed Bethelem Steel. She was commissioned on 18 September 1936 and sunk by gunfire and torpedoes of the USS Lamson and Walke after being heavily damaged in a Japanese air attack between Leyte and Ponson Island on 7 December 1944. With a displacement of 1,460 tons were her dimensions 104,04 x 10,57 x 2,95 metres or 341’4”x 34’8”x 9’8”.Her speed was 35 knots and her crew numbered 204 men. In 1943 consisted the main armament of 4-12,7cm guns 12-53,3cm torpedo tubes and farther more anti aircraft guns.
