USS Porter (i) (DD 356)

USS Porter while leaving the Mare Island Navy Yard on 10 July 1942

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Porter
Pennant	DD 356
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Dec 1933
Launched	12 Dec 1935
Commissioned	25 Aug 1936
Lost	26 Oct 1942
History	She started her service in the Atlantic, and was relocated to the Pacific Fleet in 1937. She left Pearl Harbor on the 5th of December, 1941 for a patrol around the Hawaiian Islands, escaping the Japanese air raid. Then she operated with Task Force 11, before joining Task Force 16, and left for the Solomons. On 26 October, 1942, in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, USS Porter (Lt Cmdr David Gillies Roberts) was hit by a torpedo from a crashed American torpedo bomber. When the plane ditched the torpedo broke loose and hit the Porter. The crew abandoned her, and she was scuttled by gunfire from USS Shaw. USS Porter received 1 Battle Star for her services before her loss.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Harry Draper Hoffman, USN	11 Jun 1938	15 May 1940 (1)
2	Cdr. Charles William Weitzel, USN	15 May 1940	15 Jun 1941 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Frederick Irving Entwistle, USN	15 Jun 1941	21 Mar 1942
4	Lt.Cdr. David Gillies Roberts, USN	21 Mar 1942	26 Oct 1942

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