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DD 43 - USS Cassin (HULL 58)

1000-Ton Cassin Class Destroyer for the United States Navy
Length: 305'-3"
Beam: 30'-6"
Depth: 17'-1"
Draft: 9'-3"
Displacement: 1,010 (light ship), 1,235 (full load)
Other Data: 4 Yarrow boilers, 2 steam turbines, 17,000 horsepower, twin screws, 2 masts, 4 stacks. 

Keel laid May 1,1912, launched May 20,1913, delivered July 12,1913, commissioned August 9,1913. 

Lead ship of Class. Reached 31.915 knots on trials. Complement of 6 officers and 106 enlisted. To the Azores in World War I for patrol and convoy escort duty. Torpedoed by German U-61 off Ireland October 15,1917, 1 dead, 6 injured, 30' of stern and rudder blown off. Repaired in 8 months at Queenstown and returned to service until the end of the war. Decommissioned June 7,1922. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard June 7,1924 and redesignated CG-1, for Treasury Department to hunt for bootleggers during Prohibition. Returned to the United States Navy June 30,1933. Stricken from the United States Navy List July 5,1934 and scrapped the same year.

DD 43 Under Construction