Mahan-class destroyer
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Mahan-class destroyers of the United States Navy were a series of 18 destroyers of which the first 16 were laid down in 1934. The last two of the 18, Dunlap and Fanning, are sometimes considered a sep
USS Mahan circa 1938
USS Mahan at Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul on 24 June 1944
South Dakota, Navy repair ship, Mahan (damaged bow), and Lamson, after South Dakota – Mahan collision, following the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands
Cummings underway in 1944
Porter-class destroyer
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The Porter-class destroyers were a class of eight 1,850-ton large destroyers in the United States Navy. Like the preceding Farragut-class, their construction was authorized by Congress on 26 April 191
Mahan-class destroyer
…improve the anti-aircraft field of fire, their tripod foremast was constructed without nautical rigging. In silhouette, they were similar to the larger Porter-class destroyers that immediately preceded them. The Mahans were fitted with the first emergency generators, which replaced the storage batteries of earlier classes…
USS Balch — the eighth and final Porter-class destroyer — on 23 September 1936
USS Phelps in November 1944, with five dual-purpose 5-inch (127 mm) guns