#clemson-class destroyer

Wreck of USS Stewart DD-224. Part of the Asiatic Fleet, damaged and scuttled. Raised by the Japanese and renamed Patrol Boat 102. Found by the Allies in Kure after the end of the war, renamed RAMP 224 (Recovered Allied Military Personnel). Expended as a target. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-newly-discovered-sunken-warship-served-on-both-sides-of-world-war-ii-180985192/

USS Caldwell (DD-69) in dazzle paint scheme, 1918.

On this date, The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War. The operation was undertaken by the Royal Navy (RN) and British Commandos under the auspices of Combined Operations Headquarters on 28 March 1942. St Nazaire was targeted because the loss of its dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs, such as Tirpitz, sister ship of Bismarck, to return to home waters by running the gauntlet of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy and other British forces, via the English Channel or the North Sea. The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown (former USS Buchanan accompanied by 18 smaller craft, crossed the English Channel to the Atlantic coast of France and was rammed into the Normandie dock gates. The ship had been packed with delayed-action explosives, well hidden within a steel and concrete case, that detonated later that day, putting the dock out of service until 1948. A force of commandos landed to destroy machinery and other structures. German gunfire sank, set ablaze, or immobilized virtually all the small craft intended to transport the commandos back to England. The commandos fought their way through the town to escape overland but many surrendered when they ran out of ammunition or were surrounded by the Wehrmacht defending Saint-Nazaire.

USS McCormick DD-223 in the foreground, French battleship Bretagne is on the right training ship HMS Thunderer (on the left) is anchored in Villefranche-sur-Mer.

USS Edsall (DD-219) Off San Diego Naval Base California

USS BAINBRIDGE entering Havana.

On 8 September 1923 the US Navy lost one and a half destroyer divisions -- seven ships -- in a mass grounding at Honda Point, California. This peacetime disaster had few equals at the time, and still remains one of the worst such disasters in US Navy history. The ships turned east, supposedly into the Santa Barbara Channel, at 2100 hours. In reality the ships had were headed for the rocky shore due to navigational errors and unusual currents caused by the Tokyo earthquake of the previous week. The ships soon entered a thick fogbank, each vessel following the wake of the ship ahead. 5 minutes after the turn, Delphy ran ashore at 20 knots, quickly followed by other members of the squadron. The ships were total losses. They were stricken from the Register, stripped of useable equipment and sold to a scrapper for $1,035. No salvage work was done, and the ships remain where they were wrecked.

USS MacFarland_DD-237. McFarland was heavily damaged during the early morning of 19 September 1923 after being rammed on the port side forward of her bridge by the battleship Arkansas during night maneuvers off of the Cape Cod Canal.