Bagley-class destroyer
 USS Bagley (DD-386) | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Bagley class destroyer |
| Builders: |
Norfolk Naval Shipyard Boston Navy Yard Mare Island Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard |
| Operators: |
 United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Gridley-class destroyer |
| Succeeded by: | Somers-class destroyer |
| Built: | 1935 – 1937 |
| In commission: | 1937 – 1946 |
| Completed: | 8 |
| Lost: | 3 |
| Retired: | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
2,325 tons (full) 1,500 tons (light) |
| Length: | 341 ft 8 in (104.14 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draft: |
10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) light 12 ft 10 in (3.91 m) full |
| Propulsion: | 4 Babcock & Wilcox or Foster Wheeler boilers, 2 geared steam turbines, two propellers, 49,000 shp (37,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 38.5 knots (71.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 251 |
| Armament: |
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The Bagley class of destroyers was built by the United States. All eight ships were ordered and laid down in 1935 and subsequently completed in 1937. Their layout was based upon the Gridley-class destroyer design, but they retained the power plants of the Mahan-class destroyers, and thus had a lesser speed than the Gridleys. The Bagley class destroyers were readily distinguished visually by the external trunking of their boiler uptakes around their single stack.
All eight Bagley destroyers were present at the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, comprising Destroyer Squadron Four. They all served in the Pacific during World War II, with Jarvis, Blue, and Henley lost in combat. In 1944 Mugford suffered extensive damage from a kamikaze hit that put her out of combat for six months.
The remaining four Bagleys operated as Destroyer Squadron Six, with Ralph Talbot receiving a kamikaze hit off Okinawa. Bagley accepted the surrender of Japanese forces on Marcus Island.
Bagley, Helm, and Patterson were decommissioned in 1945 and scrapped in 1947. Mugford and Ralph Talbot, still in commission, were targets during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll in 1946. Contaminated by radiation, they were scuttled off Kwajalein in 1948.
Ships in class
| Ship Name | Hull No. | Builder | Commission– Decommission |
Fate | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagley | DD-386 | Norfolk Navy Yard | 1937-1946 | Sold for scrap, September 8, 1947 | |
| Blue | DD-387 | Norfolk Navy Yard | 1937-1942 | Sunk by enemy action, on August 22, 1942 | |
| Helm | DD-388 | Norfolk Navy Yard | 1937-1946 | Sold for scrap, October 2, 1947 | |
| Mugford | DD-389 | Boston Navy Yard | 1937-1946 | Sunk deliberately off Kwajalein, March 22, 1948 | |
| Ralph Talbot | DD-390 | Boston Navy Yard | 1937-1946 | Sunk deliberately off Kwajalein March 8, 1948 | |
| Henley | DD-391 | Mare Island Navy Yard | 1937-1943 | Sunk by enemy action October 3, 1943 | |
| Patterson | DD-392 | Puget Sound Navy Yard | 1937-1945 | Sold for scrap, August 18, 1947 | |
| Jarvis | DD-393 | Puget Sound Navy Yard | 1937-1942 | Sunk by enemy action, August 9, 1942 | |
See also
Media related to Bagley class destroyers at Wikimedia Commons
External links
- Bagley-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
- Tin Can Sailors @ Destroyers.org - Bagley class destroyer
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