
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
APD-4 USS Little (ex DD-79)
- High-Speed Transport (ex Wickes class Destroyer):
- Displacement: 1,190 tons
- Length: 314'4"
- Beam: 30'6"
- Draft: 8'8"
- Speed: 35 knots
- Armament: 3 3"/50, 2 40mm, 5 20mm, 1 depth charge track, 4 depth charge projectors
- Complement: 149
- Geared turbine engines, twin screws, 26,000 h.p.
- Built at Bethlehem, Fore River, and commissioned 6 April 1918
- Converted to High-Speed Transport, 1940
: Sunk by gunfire from IJN destroyer Yudachi, 5 Sep 42, at Guadalcanal
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3 February 2003