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DD-43 USS CASSIN

CLASS - CASSIN As Built.
Displacement 1,072 Tons, Dimensions, 305' 3" (oa) x 31' 2" x 10' 6" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 8 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 16,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines With Triple Expansion Cruising Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 98.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath Me. on May 1 1912.
Launched May 20 1913 and commissioned August 9 1913.
Placed in reserve at Philadelphia June 18 1919 and berthed
with the reserve fleet until reactivated February 14 1921.
Cassin returned to Philadelphia and decommissioned on June 7 1922
and berthed with the reserve fleet until loaned to the Coast Guard As
CG-1 on June 7 1924 and was returned June 30 1933.Cassin lost her
name to new construction November 1 1933.
Stricken July 5 1934.
Fate Sold August 22 1934 and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
38k	Born in Philadelphia, 16 February 1783, Stephen Cassin entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1800, and served in Philadelphia in the West Indies during the latter part of the war with France. In the war of 1812, he commanded Ticonderoga in the Battle of Lake Champlain and was awarded a gold medal for bravery by Congress. Captain Cassin died in Washington, D.C., 29 August 1857.	Bill Gonyo
34k	Undated, location unknown.	David Buell
50k	USS Cassin (DD 43) at Queenstown, Ireland showing World War I camouflage, 1913/14.	Joe Radigan
100k	Photo #: NH 85774, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) and USS Cassin (Destroyer # 43) fitting out at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1913. Halftone reproduction, published on a color-tinted postal card. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
24k	The Cassin was struck by a torpedo, on October 16, 1917, although badly disabled, the Cassin remained afloat, fired several shells at the submarine, and made port under her own steam.	Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
40k	A series of three views of the damage sustained 16 October, 1917 from a torpedo launched from U-61. National Archives, Record Group 19-N.	Tracy White
86k	As above.	Tracy White
47k	As above.	Tracy White
54k	Men on the deck of the Destroyer Cassin. George Hoffman, the man in the center background, was one of the men cited for special service when the Cassin was struck by a torpedo. Double torpedo tubes are shown at the left.	Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
137k	Coast Guard destroyers Tucker (left) and the Cassin (right) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.	Mike Green
64k	1926, on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.	Mike Green

USS CASSIN DD-43 History
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