USS Shaw (DD-373)

USS Shaw (DD-373)

USS Shaw (DD-373), a Mahan-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain John Shaw, a Naval officer. Commissioned in 1936, she was plagued by construction deficiencies and was not fully operational until 1938. After training in the Atlantic, she was transferred to the Pacific, and was in dry dock in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

She sustained major damage from multiple bomb hits during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. The spectacular explosion of her forward magazine provided one of the most iconic photographs of the attack. She was repaired within a few months of the attack, and served extensively in the Pacific through the rest of World War II, earning eleven battle stars.

Like most other surviving pre-war destroyers, Shaw was deactivated immediately after the end of the war. She was scrapped in 1946.