I mentioned in my post on October 18th that the survivors of the AHS Centaur were rescued by the USS Mugford so went to good old Wikipedia and found some information on it.
The Mugford was the second destroyer to bear the name of James Mugford who was killed in hand-to-hand combat aboard the Continental Navy's schooner Franklin on May 19, 1776. The first USS Mugford was DD-105 commissioned 1918 and decommissioned in 1922.
The USS Mugford (DD-389) was a Bagley Class destroyer built at Boston Navy Yard, commissioned 1937, decommissioned 1946 and scuttled March 22, 1948. It weighed 2,325 tons was 341 feet long and had a top speed of 38.5 knots. It mounted 4X5-inch guns, 4X50 calibre guns and 12X21-inch torpedo tubes.
The USS Mugford was at Pearl harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and shot down three Japanese planes in ten minutes and was underway an hour after the attack began.
More to Come. --Cooter
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