USS Gwin (DD-433)

USS Gwin underway in 1941
History
United States
Name	Gwin
Namesake	William Gwin
Builder	Boston Navy Yard
Laid down	1 June 1939
Launched	25 May 1940
Commissioned	15 January 1941
Honours and awards	5 × battle stars
Fate	Sunk at Battle of Kolombangara, 13 July 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 6 × 20 mm AA guns, 6 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks

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USS Gwin (DD-433), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander William Gwin, an American Civil War officer who commanded river boats against Confederate forces in Alabama.

Gwin was launched on 25 May 1940 by the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. Jesse T. Lippincott, second cousin of Lt.Comdr. Gwin. The destroyer was commissioned at Boston on 15 January 1941. Gwin was sunk by a torpedo launched by a Japanese destroyer during the Battle of Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands Campaign in July 1943.