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USS Mayrant (DD-402)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Mayrant.
The second USS Mayrant (DD-402) was a Benham-class destroyer in the United States Navy, the second ship named for John Mayrant. Commissioned shortly before World War II, she was primarily active in the Atlantic theater of the war, and was decommissioned after being used as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic weapons tests.
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Name | USS Mayrant |
Namesake | John Mayrant |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard |
Laid down | 15 April 1937 |
Launched | 14 May 1938 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. E. Sheely |
Commissioned | 13 September 1939 |
Decommissioned | 28 August 1946 |
Stricken | 30 April 1948 |
Fate | Scuttled off Kwajalein 4 April 1948 |
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Class and type | Benham-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,725 long tons (1,753 t) |
Length | 331 ft 1 in (100.91 m) |
Beam | 35 ft 5 in (10.80 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Speed | 38.5 kn (71.3 km/h; 44.3 mph) |
Complement | 184 officers and enlisted |
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