USS Perkins DD-377

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Mahan
Builder:
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.

Hull Number:
DD-377
Ordered:
August 2, 1933
Commissioned:
September 18, 1936
Keel Laid:
November 15, 1934
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
December 31, 1935
Stricken:
N/A
   
Fate:
Sunk Nov. 29, 1943 after being rammed by HMAS Duntroon (troopship).

Location: Solomon Sea, 4 miles northeast of Greaves Point, Papua New Guinea.
(09.38S-150.04E)

9 men lost, aprox. 230 survivors picked up by Duntroon.
(Roll of Honor)
Notes:
Names in honor of Commodore George Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N. (1836-1899).


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 16, 2016