USS Cassin Young (DD-793)

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USS Cassin Young
The ship in the museum harbor, 2007
The ship in the museum harbor, 2007
Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States United States
Ship type destroyer
class Fletcher class
home port Boston (since 1974)
Owner On permanent loan from the US Navy to the National Park Service
Shipyard Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Launch September 12, 1943
Whereabouts Museum ship
Ship dimensions and crew
length
114.7 m ( Lüa )
width 12.1 m
Draft Max. 4.2 m
displacement 2325 t (standard)
2924 t (fully loaded)
 
crew 273 (in wartime)
Machine system
machine 4 oil-fired steam boilers, 2 steam turbines
Machine
performance 		60,000 PS (44,130 kW)
Top
speed 		35 kn (65 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

1943:

1952:

  • 5 × 5 "guns (12.7 cm) 38 caliber
  • 2 × quadruple 40 mm Bofors guns
  • 1 × twin 40mm Bofors gun
  • 2 × Hedgehog grenade launchers
  • 1 five-way torpedo tube ∅ 53 cm
  • 2 launch tubes for the Mark 32 torpedo
National Register of Historic Places
NRHP number

86000084

NRHP status

National Historic Landmark

Admitted to the NRHP

January 14, 1986

The USS Cassin Young (DD-793) is a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy named after Capt. Cassin Young . She entered service in 1943 and took an active part in a variety of missions during World War II . In 1960 she was incorporated into the reserve fleet and finally withdrawn from active service in 1974. Since 1981 it has been open to the public as a museum ship in the Boston National Historical Park , where it lies diagonally across from the USS Constitution .

history

1944

After its commissioning on December 31, 1943, the Cassin Young reached Pearl Harbor on March 19, 1944 to carry out training maneuvers. From there she was sent to Manus Island to join the Fast Carrier Task Force TF-58. On April 28, the armed forces carried out air strikes on the Japanese fortresses on the islands of Chuuk , Woleai , Satawan and Pohnpei , with the Cassin Young being used to expand the radar coverage and thus to secure the fleet. After a stopover on the Majuro Atoll and in Pearl Harbor for training purposes, she reached Eniwetok on June 11 , in order to be used together with escort aircraft carriers as escort for an attack planned four days later, which later became known as the Battle of Saipan . The Cassin Young also attacked domestic targets and assisted in attacks on airfields on Tinian , Rota and Guam . She also assisted in subsequent attacks on Tinian and Guam, and returned to Eniwetok on August 13 to replenish supplies.

From August 29 to October 2, 1944, the Cassin Young secured the aircraft carriers of Task Group 38.3, which were flying attacks against Palau , Mindanao and Luzon during this period . Four days after the end of the mission, she started from Ulithi Atoll to take part in the retaking of the Philippines . The ship was involved in the Battle of Formosa from October 10th to 13th . On October 14, the USS Reno (CL-96) was hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft that had previously wounded five Cassin Young sailors in machine gun fire.

On October 18, Task Force 38 was east of Luzon and began attacking enemy airfields in preparation for a major attack on Leyte two days later. The Cassin Young and other ships entered the San Bernardino Strait on October 24th to attack enemy troops. At 9:38 a.m., however, the USS Princeton (CVL-23) was hit by an aerial bomb , so that the Cassin Young was ordered back to the main force to participate in what would later become known as the Sea and Air Battle in the Leyte Gulf .

1945

The Cassin Young continued to participate in the US Navy operations in the Pacific and was involved in other attacks on Okinawa , Formosa and Luzon, among other things . With its base on Ulithi Atoll, it essentially secured aircraft carriers until January 1945, whose planes flew attacks on Formosa, Luzon, Cam Ranh Bay , Hong Kong , Guangzhou and the Ryūkyū Islands . After a brief repair on Ulithi, she took part in the Battle of Iwojima by securing the supporting air strikes on Honshu and Okinawa and the bombing of Parece Vela . She was also directly involved in the attack on Iwojima on February 19, 1945.

On March 22nd, the Cassin Young left Ulithi to take part in the Battle of Okinawa . After securing battleships during the pre-invasion bombing, it was used in the immediate vicinity of the coast to support divers who prepared the beaches. On April 1, 1945, the day of the invasion, they supported the landing craft with their guns and then resumed radar reconnaissance. On April 6, the ship survived a series of kamikaze attacks designed by the Japanese to change the course of the battle in their favor. She rescued survivors of two destroyers that were sunk near her by these attacks. On April 12, she was able to shoot down five of six attacking kamikaze aircraft, while the remaining fighter hit the foremast of the Cassin Young and exploded about 15 m from the ship. As if by a miracle, only one crew member was killed in this attack and another was wounded. The destroyer was able to reach the Kerama Islands on its own and returned to Okinawa on May 31, after repairs had been carried out.

The Cassin Young remained except for two escort missions to the Marianas with her group a main target for kamikaze attacks by the Japanese, which led to the sinking of a destroyer on July 28 and serious damage to another. The Cassin Young supported the air defense and took in survivors of the sunken ship. A day later, she was hit on the starboard side by a Japanese plane , causing an explosion amidships. However, the crew managed to extinguish the fire and restore the functionality of a drive train in just 20 minutes in order to reach the safe Kerama Islands. In this attack, 22 sailors lost their lives and 45 were wounded. For her successful missions, especially in the Battle of Okinawa, the Cassin Young received the Navy Unit Commendation with four service stars .

1946

On August 8, 1945, the Cassin Young left Okinawa and returned to San Pedro for repairs , where it was removed from active service on May 28, 1946 and assigned to the reserve.

1951 to 1960

The Cassin Young 1958

On September 8, 1951, the ship was reactivated and left San Diego on January 4, 1952 in the direction of her new home port Newport (Rhode Island) . After an overhaul, including the installation of new weapon systems, and training trips in the Caribbean, from May 7 to June 12, 1953, she took part in anti-submarine exercises off Florida . From September 16 to November 30, 1953, she was part of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean . On May 3, 1954, she left Newport on a world tour, during which she performed maneuvers with the 7th Fleet in the western Pacific, patrolled Korea and made courtesy visits to ports in the Far East and the Mediterranean. On November 28, 1954, the Cassin Young returned to Newport and carried out training missions in the Caribbean and off the east coast of the United States until 1960, but was also used several times in the Mediterranean from 1956 to 1959. In 1958 she made a tour of several ports in Northern Europe . On February 6, 1960, the Cassin Young reached the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for decommissioning, where it was transferred to the reserve fleet on April 29, 1960.

1974 until today

On December 1, 1974, the Cassin Young was removed from the United States Navy shipping register and given on permanent loan to the National Park Service , which moved it to the Boston Navy Yard , prepared it after its arrival on June 15, 1978 and opened it to the public as a museum ship in 1981 made accessible. Today the ship is maintained by National Park Service staff and volunteers. In 1986, the USS Cassin Young was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark . Due to necessary work on the outer shell in the dry dock, it was not on display in the museum from late 2010 to mid-2013.

Awards

The Cassin Young received a number of awards:

More museum ships of the Fletcher class

In addition to the Cassin Young , three other Fletcher-class ships can be viewed as museum ships:

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : USS Cassin Young  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h cf. Naval History and Heritage Command.
  3. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2019.

Coordinates: 42 ° 22 ′ 20 ″  N , 71 ° 3 ′ 16 ″  W.