Porter-class destroyer
Ships in class
The eight ships of the Porter class were:

Porter-class destroyer

Section Title: Ships in class
Table Section Text: The eight ships of the Porter class were:

Ship name	Hull no.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate

Porter	DD-356	New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey	18 December 1933	12 December 1935	27 August 1936	N/A	Lost in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 26 October 1942 to a torpedo, either from the Japanese submarine I-21 or "friendly fire" from a ditching Grumman TBF Avenger

Selfridge	DD-357	18 December 1933	18 April 1936	25 November 1936	15 October 1945	Scrapped 1946

McDougal	DD-358	18 December 1933	17 July 1936	23 December 1936	24 June 1946	Reclassified AG-126 17 September 1945, scrapped 1949

Winslow	DD-359	18 December 1933	21 September 1936	17 February 1937	28 June 1950	Reclassified AG-127 17 September 1945, decommissioned 28 June 1950, scrapped 1959

Phelps	DD-360	Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts	2 January 1934	18 July 1935	26 February 1936	6 November 1945	Scrapped 1947

Clark	DD-361	2 January 1934	15 October 1935	20 May 1936	23 October 1945	Scrapped 1946

Moffett	DD-362	2 January 1934	11 December 1935	28 August 1936	2 November 1945	Scrapped 1947

Balch	DD-363	16 May 1934	24 March 1936	20 October 1936	19 October 1945	Scrapped 1946

Sentence(s)

McDougal and Winslow were reclassified as AG-126 and AG-127 in September 1945.

final_sentence: McDougal and Winslow were reclassified as AG-126 and AG-127 in September 1945.