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USS PERKINS (DD-377)

CLASS - MAHAN As Built.
Displacement 2103 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 341' 4" (oa) x 35' 5" x 12' 4" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 4 x 0.5" MG, 12 x 21" tt.(3x4).
Machinery, 49,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.5 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 12 Knots, Crew 158.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Puget Sound Navy Yard August 15 1934.
Launched December 31 1935 and commissioned September 18 1936.
Fate Sunk after collision with the Australian troop ship HMAS Duntroon
off Cape Vogel New Guinea November 29 1943.
9 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.

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Perkins 52kPhoto #: NH 47485. Captain George H. Perkins, USN photographed circa 1882-1891. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Perkins 117kUndated, location unknown.-
Perkins 59kUndated, location unknown.-
Perkins 118kUSS Perkins (DD-377) in port during the 1930s. This view may have been taken at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa Autumn 1936 when the ship was completed (USN Photo No 91865).Robert Hurst
Perkins 109kPhoto #: NH 74276. USS Perkins (DD-377) steaming through heavy seas, 27 August 1937. Photographed from the stern of another destroyer. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Perkins 126kPhoto #: NH 74321. USS Perkins (DD-377) underway in harbor (probably at San Diego, California), 1 November 1937. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Perkins 149kDestroyers underway in San Diego Harbor, California, 1938. Identifiable ships are: USS Drayton (DD-366), at left; USS Preston (DD-379), at right; and USS Perkins (DD-377), in center, partially masked by Preston. Note colored bands painted on these destroyer's after smokestacks, possibly for unit identification purposes. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Fred Weiss
Perkins 112kPhoto #: NH 74322. USS Perkins (DD-377) at anchor on 18 April 1938, with USS Flusser (DD-368) in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Perkins 104kPhoto #: NH 43518. USS Perkins (DD-377) returning from a Fleet cruise, 28 April 1938. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Tony Cowart
Perkins 78kPhoto #: NH 68329. USS Perkins (DD-377) underway, circa the later 1930s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Perkins 60kCirca 1939, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Perkins 166kNorthrup BT-1 bomber (Bureau # 0640), (Bombing Squadron Five's plane number 516) Upside down and sinking after going over the side of USS Yorktown (CV-5) during flight operations in the Pacific, 23 July 1940. USS Perkins (DD-377) is coming up at right to rescue the plane's crew, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas D. Cummins (Pilot) and Radioman Third Class Donald MacKillop. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Fred Weiss
Perkins 90kPhoto #: 80-G-266837. USS Perkins (DD-377) photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8) in a south Pacific harbor, 25 February 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Tony Cowart

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