USS Tucker (DD-374) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Tucker (DD-374) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Samuel Tucker. Tucker was laid down at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 15 August 1934 by the Norfolk Navy Yard; launched on 26 February 1936; sponsored by Mrs. Leonard Thorner; and commissioned on 23 July 1936, Lieutenant Commander George T. Howard in command. Following shakedown training, Tucker joined the destroyer forces attached to the United States Battle Fleet and was based at San Diego, California. As part of Destroyer Squadron 3, Destroyer Division 6, she operated with the Battle Force along the west coast and in the Hawaiian Islands. In February 1939, she took part in Fleet Problem XX, the naval exercise in the Caribbean personally observed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Houston (CA-30).