USS
Blue
(DD-387)
Navy
US Navy
Type
Destroyer
Class
Bagley
Pennant
DD 387
Built by
Norfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Laid down
25 Sep 1935
Launched
27 May 1937
Commissioned
14 Aug 1937
Lost
On 23 August 1942 USS Blue (Cdr. Harold Nordmark Williams) was scuttled in position 09º17'S, 160º02'E after being torpedoed by the Japanese destroyer Kawakaze in Savo Sound, Solomons the day before,
9
crewmembers lost their lives.