USS Blue (DD-387)
DD 387 Blue (United States Blue Ship) is an American Bagley type destroyer.
Laid down at the Norfolk Navy Yard shipyard on September 25, 1935 . Launched on May 27, 1937 , entered service on August 14, 1937 .
On August 22, 1942, it was severely damaged by the torpedo of the Japanese destroyer " Kawakaze " near the island of Guadalcanal . Flooded on August 23, 1942 in the Slot Strait .
Expelled from the U.S. Navy on September 11, 1942 .
Literature
- Robert Sinclair Parkin. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II . - Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press,2001 . - 408 p. - ISBN 0-306-81069-7 .
- United States Destroyer Operations in World War II . - Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986 . - P. 174-175. - ISBN 0-870-21726-7 .