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NH 67743 USS HENLEY (DD-391)

USS HENLEY (DD-391)
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Title: USS HENLEY (DD-391)
Caption: HENLEY was commissioned in 1937. By 1943 the valiant ship's war time career, began in the chaos at Pearl Harbor, was drawing to a close. On 3 October 1943 she was steaming with USS REID and USS SMITH on an offensive sweep off Finschafen, New Guinea, when her skipper sighted two torpedoes heading for her. Split-second maneuvering permitted HENLEY to evade those two torpedoes; but a third was immediately sighted, closing too fast and too near to be avoided. HENLEY was struck on the port side, with the torpedo exploding in the number 1 fire room, destroying her boilers, breaking her keel, and displacing her bow about 30 degrees from the longitudinal axis of the ship. At 1829, with all her crew having abandoned ship, HENLEY went down, stern first.
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Catalog #: NH 67743
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