USS Downes (DD-375), USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), Pearl Harbor
Here we see the wrecks of the Mahan class destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin (DD-372), with the largely intact USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in the background, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.. Both the Downes and Cassin were damaged beyond repair by explosions caused by oil fires on the rising water in the drydock, but their machinary and equipment were salavaged and placed in new hulls that kept the numbers and names of the original ships. The new Downes was recommissioned on 15 November 1943 and the Cassin on 5 February 1944. The Pennsylvania was largely undamaged, and probably suffered more damage from fragments of the two destroyers hitting her than from the Japanese attack. She was able to sail to San Francisco on 20 December for repairs that lasted less that two weeks.
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Rickard, J (15 April 2025), USS Downes (DD-375), USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), Pearl Harbor , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_USS_Downes_Cassin_Pennsylvania_pearl_harbor.html
