USS Little (DD-79)
USS Little (DD-79), running trials in icy waters, 4 March 1918.
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United States | |
Name | Little |
Namesake | George Little |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 18 June 1917 |
Launched | 11 November 1917 |
Commissioned | 6 April 1918 |
Decommissioned | 5 July 1922 |
Reclassified | Fast transport (APD-4) 2 August 1940 |
Recommissioned | 4 November 1940 |
Fate | Sunk 5 September 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,191 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 11 in (9.4 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 133 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Little (DD-79/APD-4), a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for George Little (1754–1809).
Little was
Service history
Little departed
The ship arrived Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 January 1919 for drydock and operations with Destroyer Force, Atlantic. She escorted the president's party back into New York City from 6 to 8 July, and then engaged in tactical exercises, she was transferred to Reserve Status with ComDesRon 3 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17 November, where she remained until 4 January 1921. The ship then operated along the Atlantic coast until she returned to Philadelphia and decommissioned 5 July 1922.
Converted to a high-speed transport by having two boilers removed and converted to troop quarters,
As
Supplies for American troops on Guadalcanal had been badly disrupted by the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942. High-speed destroyer-transports were called upon to remedy this shortage. As she discharged stores and Marine Raiders[1] on the Guadalcanal beaches on 30 August, Little witnessed the destruction of Colhoun by enemy aircraft.
The three remaining APDs, Little,
About 0100 on 5 September, Little observed gun flashes to the east and believed this to be an enemy submarine. Moments later a Navy
Awards
Little received two
Citations and notes
- ^ a b p.61, Lane
- ^ "Roll of Honour". maritimequest.com. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
References
- Lane, Kerry, Guadalcanal Marine, University Press of Mississippi, 2004
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photos Archived 14 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- NavSource Photos