![]() USS Kidd underway, 1951
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History | |
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Name | Kidd |
Namesake | Isaac C. Kidd |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 16 October 1942 |
Launched | 28 February 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd |
Commissioned | 23 April 1943 |
Decommissioned | 10 December 1946 |
Recommissioned | 28 March 1951 |
Decommissioned | 19 June 1964 |
Stricken | 1 December 1974 |
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Nickname(s) | Pirate of the Atlantic & Pacific |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | Museum ship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Fletcher-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,050 tons |
Length | 376 ft (115 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 8 in (12.09 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 329 |
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USS Kidd (DD-661) | |
![]() Kidd serves as part of the Louisiana Veterans Memorial. | |
Location | 305 South River Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Coordinates | 30°26′40″N 91°11′29″W / 30.44431°N 91.19151°W |
Built | 1943 |
Architect | US Navy |
NRHP reference No. | 83000502[1] |
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Added to NRHP | 9 August 1983 |
Designated NHL | 14 January 1986[2] |
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action.[3] A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is the only surviving US destroyer still in her World War II configuration. She is one of four remaining Fletcher-class destroyers in the world.