Mahan Class Destroyer Summary

This is a 3D printed sculpt of the Mahan class destroyer game piece from GamingStar.

The Mahan-class consisted of 18 destroyers laid down in 1934 and commissioned by 1937. Mahan was the lead ship and named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, an influential historian and theorist on sea power.

The Mahan design featured improvements over previous destroyers, with 12 torpedo tubes, superimposed gun shelters, and generators for emergency use, which increased the standard displacement to 1,500 tons. A new lightweight steam turbine was introduced which proved simpler and more efficient than previous destroyer classes.

All 18 ships saw action in World War II, entirely in the Pacific Theater, which included the Guadalcanal Campaign, and the battles of the Santa Cruz Islands, Leyte Gulf, and Iwo Jima. Their participation in major and secondary campaigns included the bombardment of beachheads, amphibious landings, task force screening, convoy and patrol duty, and anti-aircraft and submarine warfare. Eight ships were lost in combat and two were expended in the postwar Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. The remainder were decommissioned, sold, or scrapped after the war. Collectively, the ships received 111 battle stars for their World War II service.

Ships of class:

• Mahan DD-364 - Severely damaged in December 1944 by kamikaze attack; abandoned and sunk by a US destroyer
• Cummings DD-365
• Drayton DD-366
• Lamson DD-367 - Sunk in the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll
• Flusser DD-368
• Reid DD-369 - Sunk December 1944 by kamikazes
• Case DD-370 
• Conyngham DD-371 - Ship used in Operation Crossroads in 1946 and destroyed by sinking in 1948
• Cassin DD-372 - Sunk at Pearl Harbor
• Shaw DD-373 
• Tucker DD-374 - Struck a mine and sank August 1942
• Downes DD-375 - Sunk at Pearl Harbor 
• Cushing DD-376 - Sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal November 1942
• Perkins DD-377 - Sunk November 1943 after ramming by an Australian troopship
• Smith DD-378 
• Preston DD-379 - Sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal November 1942
• Dunlap DD-384 
• Fanning DD-385 

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