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((Short description|Benham-class destroyer))
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|Ship name=''Benham''
|Ship namesake=[[Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham]]
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|Ship laid down=1 September 1936
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|Ship honors=[[File:Silver-service-star-3d.png|20px]] 5 × [[Battle star#Navy warships|battle stars]]
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|Ship displacement=2,250 tons (full)
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'''USS ''Benham'' (DD-397)''' was the [[lead ship]] of [[Benham-class destroyer|her class]] of [[destroyer]]s and the second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for [[Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham]]. She missed the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]], being an escort for the [[aircraft carrier]] ((USS|Enterprise|CV-6|6)) on her way to [[Midway Atoll]] at the time. She also served off [[Hawaii]] during the [[Doolittle raid]], rescued survivors from several ships, and operated during the [[Battle of Midway]] and the [[Guadalcanal Campaign|landings on Guadalcanal]], among other missions. She was [[torpedo]]ed and rendered unusable, for which she was sunk at the end of 1942.

==Construction==
''Benham'' was [[Keel laying|laid down]] on 1 September 1936 by [[Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]] at their yard in [[Kearny, New Jersey]]. The destroyer was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 16 April 1938 and [[Ship sponsor|sponsored]] by Mrs. A. I. Dorr, grandniece of [[Rear Admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral]] [[Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham|Benham]]. ''Benham'' was [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 2 February 1939 with [[Lieutenant Commander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]] [[Thomas Darden|T. F. Darden]] in command.

==Service history==
Assigned to the [[U.S. Atlantic Fleet]], ''Benham'' patrolled off [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] during most of 1939 and then shifted to the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Ordered to the Pacific, she arrived at [[Pearl Harbor]] 14 April 1940. After alternating between Californian and Hawaiian waters, the destroyer served as an escort for ((USS|Enterprise|CV-6|2)) during the delivery of [[United States Marine Corps|Marine]] planes to [[Midway Atoll]] on 28 November to 8 December 1941, thus missing the Japanese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]]. ''Benham'' served with ''Enterprise'' and ((USS|Saratoga|CV-3|2)) task forces off Hawaii and with Task Force 16 during the [[Doolittle raid]] on Tokyo, 8 to 25 April 1942. She continued operating with TF 16 through the [[Battle of Midway]], 3 to 6 June, during which she rescued 720 survivors from the aircraft carrier ((USS|Yorktown|CV-5|2)) and 188 from the destroyer ((USS|Hammann|DD-412|2)); landings on [[Guadalcanal]] and [[Tulagi]], 7 to 9 August, and the [[Battle of the Eastern Solomons]], 23 to 25 August.

''Benham'' joined Task Force 64 on 15 October as a part of the naval covering force off Guadalcanal. During 14–15 November, she took part in the [[Naval Battle of Guadalcanal]], and at 00:38 on 15 November she took a single [[torpedo]] in her bow which severed everything forward of her [[Bridge (nautical)|bridge]]. ''Benham'' stayed afloat, making slow headway towards Guadalcanal during the 15th but, by 16:37, further progress was impossible and her crew abandoned ship. ((USS|Gwin|DD-433|2)) picked up the survivors, and sank the hulk at 19:38 by shell-fire.

==Honors==
''Benham'' received five [[battle star]]s for her service in World War II.

==References==
((reflist|30em))
*Brown, David. ''Warship Losses of World War Two.'' Arms and Armour, London, Great Britain, 1990.  ((ISBN|0-85368-802-8)).
* ((cite journal|last1=Wright |first1=Christopher C.|year=1986|title=The U.S. Fleet at the New York World's Fair, 1939: Some Photographs from the Collection of the Late William H. Davis|journal=Warship International|volume=XXIII|issue=3|pages=273–285|issn=0043-0374))
*((DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/benham-ii.html))

==External links==
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*((webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20121009111023/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/dd397.htm |title=history.navy.mil: USS ''Benham'' |date=2012-10-09))
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/397.htm navsource.org: USS ''Benham'']
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd397txt.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Benham'']

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