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Sunday, 13 July 2025

American destroyer USS Reid DD-369 1934-1944

USS Porter. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

USS Aylwin of the Farragut-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

USS Mahan. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Gridley-class. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Part of Mahan-class (18 completed) preceded by Porter-class succeeded by Gridley-class. Improved version of the Farragut-class. Laid down by Federak Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey, USA  on 25 June 1934, launched on 11 January 1936, commissioned on 2 November 1936 and sunk in an air attack by Japanese kamikazes underway to the Ormoc Bay, west coast of Leyte, Philippines on 11 December 1944. 

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