USS Porter (DD-356)
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USS Porter (DD-356), named for Admiral David Dixon Porter USN(1813-1891), was a Porter class destroyer laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 18 December 1933, launched on 12 December 1935 by Miss Carlile Patterson Porter and commissioned at Philadelphia on 27 August 1936. Porter was en-route to Hawaii from San Diego when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and patrolled in Hawaiian waters. USS Porter was torpedoed by the enemy Japanese submarine I-12 during the Battle of Santa Cruz Island on 26 October 1942 and was subsequently sunk by gunfire from USS Shaw (DD-373). She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 November 1942.
| Porter-class destroyer |
| Porter | Selfridge | McDougal | Winslow | Phelps | Clark | Moffett | Balch |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |