USS Mugford DD-389

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Bagley
Builder:
Boston Naval Shipyard
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Hull Number:
DD-389
Ordered:
August 22, 1934
Commissioned:
August 16, 1937
Keel Laid:
October 28, 1935
Decommissioned:
August 29, 1946
Launched:
October 31, 1936
Stricken:
April 5, 1948
   
Fate:
Used as target ship during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll (Operation Crossroads) in
July 1946. Survived both tests and was used for in a radiological decontamination study.
Scuttled off Kwajalein Atoll in Mar. 22, 1948.


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