USS Perkins (DD-377)

History
United States
Namesake:	George Hamilton Perkins
Builder:	Puget Sound Navy Yard
Laid down:	15 November 1934
Launched:	31 December 1935
Commissioned:	18 September 1936
Fate:	sunk following accident 29 November 1943
General characteristics
Class and type:	Mahan-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,500 tons
Length:	341 ft 4 in (104.04 m)
Beam:	35 ft (11 m)
Draft:	9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Speed:	37 kn (69 km/h)
Complement:	158 officers and crew
Armament:	As Built: 1 × Gun Director above bridge, 5 × 5"(127mm)/38cal DP (5x1), 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) T Tubes (3x4), 4 × .50cal (12.7mm) MG AA (4x1), 2 × Depth Charge stern racks, c1942: 1 × Gun Director above bridge, 4 × 5" (127mm)/38cal DP (4x1), 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) T Tubes (3x4), 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm AA (6x1), 2 × Depth Charge roll-off stern racks, 4 × K-gun depth charge projectors

The second USS Perkins (DD–377) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II. She was named for George Hamilton Perkins.

Perkins was laid down 15 November 1934 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. She was launched 31 December 1935, sponsored by Mrs. Larz Anderson, commissioned 18 September 1936, with Lieutenant Commander Samuel P. Jenkins in command.

Assigned first to Destroyers, Scouting Force then to Destroyers, Battle Force, Perkins was homeported at San Diego, California and operated in the eastern Pacific prior to World War II. At Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul, 7 December 1941, she reported for convoy escort duty on the 15th and on the 17th was en route to Pearl Harbor. By 15 January 1942 she was back at Mare Island for the installation of new radar equipment and on the 25th she returned to Hawaii.

On 2 February she departed Pearl Harbor with Chicago, for the southwest Pacific. On the 14th she joined Australian, New Zealand and other U.S. ships in the ANZAC Squadron then charged with protecting the eastern approaches to Australia and New Zealand. Through the spring, she continued operations with that squadron, steaming at times with fast carrier forces as they plied the Coral Sea to strike at enemy encroachments, escorting refueling units to rendezvous areas, and screening larger ships of her own and combined forces as they blasted enemy positions from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands.

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