USS Cassin (DD-372) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was the second ship named for Stephen Cassin, an officer in the United States Navy. [1] Cassin was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 28 October 1935.

In the Japanese attack, an incendiary bomb exploded Downes ’ fuel tanks, causing uncontrollable fires on board both Downes and Cassin. Cassin slipped from her keel blocks and rested against Downes. Both ships were considered lost, and Cassin …

DD-372 USS Cassin. USS Cassin was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was commissioned as a 1,500-ton Mahan class destroyer in August 1936. Through 1938, she was sent to the Atlantic and Caribbean. After this, she sailed for the Pacific, where she remained for the majority of her career.

USS Cassin (DD-372) (capsized, right) and USS Downes (DD-375) (left), In Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 7 December 1941, immediatly following the Japanese attack. Both ships had been severely damaged by bomb hits and the resulting fires.

USS Cassin (DD-372) was decommissioned as of 7 December 1941. However, superb salvage saved USS Cassin (DD-372) to play an outstanding role in World War II, and she was towed to Mare Island...

The end of the war in the Pacific found USS CASSIN guarding the air evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan. DD-372 returned to Norfolk on November 1, 1945 and was decommissioned at the Virginia base in December.

Feb 20, 2018 · At approximately 0750 Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, as I stepped from my cabin to go below to breakfast, my Chief Gunner's Mate, E.L. JAMES, dashed into the passageway and said, "Captain they...

USS Cassin (DD-372) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was the second ship named for Stephen Cassin, an officer in the United States Navy. [1]

Sep 27, 2000 · Description, history, and photograph(s) of Destroyer USS Cassin (DD-372) in WWII

USS Cassin (DD-372) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 February 1944. The ship, which had been wrecked in the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has just completed a total reconstruction, with her original machinery and main battery installed in a new hull and superstructure.