USS Cassin (DD-372)
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USS Cassin (DD-372) was launched at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard simultaneously with a sister ship, the USS Shaw on Navy Day, 1935. Entering service in late 1936, she steamed with the Atlantic fleet until 1938 until she and her crew were transferred to the Pacifc. She was in drydock with the destroyer USS Downes and battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) on 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Bombs damaged both destroyers, and with no water available to fight the fires the ships had to be abandoned. The drydock was flooded in an attempt to quench the flames but this caused Cassin to roll off of her blocks and lean up against Downes.
Both ships were then written off, but were later salvaged and returned to service. Cassin's gear was still in good condition and was removed and sent to the Mare Island Navy Yard in California, where it was installed in a new hull and rechristened the USS Cassin. The new and improved ship served the rest of World War II and was scrapped in 1947.
See USS Cassin for other ships of this name.
| Mahan-class destroyer |
| Mahan | Cummings | Drayton | Lamson | Flusser | Reid | Case | Conyngham | Cassin | Shaw | Tucker | Downes | Cushing | Perkins | Smith | Preston | Dunlap | Fanning |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |