page_title: Bath Iron Works
section_title: Notable ships built
hierarchical_section_title: Bath Iron Works / Notable ships built
caption_attribution_description: IWM caption&#160;: Two destroyers photographed shortly after the Royal Navy acquired them from America under the Destroyers for Bases agreement HMS CASTLETON, left, and HMS CAMPBELTOWN, lying side by side while undergoing refit. The ships were sailed across the Atlantic by British crews. On the left are two Polish sailors.
context_page_description: Bath Iron Works is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy. The shipyard has built and sometimes designed battleships, frigates, cruisers, and destroyers, including the Arleigh Burke class which are currently among the world's most advanced surface warships.
  Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2008. During World War II, ships built at BIW were considered to be of superior toughness by sailors and Navy officials, giving rise to the phrase "Bath-built is best-built."
context_section_description: Yachts
  Ranger, successful America's Cup defender
  Aras II, Presidential Yacht known as USS Williamsburg
  Corsair IV, large yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr.
  Lightvessels
  Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71)
  Nantucket Lightship 66
  Nantucket Lightship 106
  Naval ram
  USS Katahdin
  Monitor
  USS Nevada (BM-8)
  Denver class protected cruiser
  USS Cleveland (C-19) World War I
  Virginia-class battleship
  USS Georgia (BB-15), launched in 1904
  Chester-class cruiser
  USS Chester (CL-1) World War I
  Smith-class destroyers
  USS Flusser (DD-20) World War I
  USS Reid (DD-21) World War I
  Paulding-class destroyers
  USS Paulding (DD-22) World War I – Rum Patrol
  USS Drayton (DD-23) World War I
  USS Trippe (DD-33) World War I – Rum Patrol
  USS Jouett (DD-41) World War I – Rum Patrol
  USS Jenkins (DD-42) World War I
  Cassin-class destroyers
  USS Cassin (DD-43) World War I – Rum Patrol
  USS Cummings (DD-44) World War I – Rum Patrol
  O'Brien-class destroyer
  USS McDougal (DD-54) World War I – Rum Patrol
  Tucker-class destroyer
  USS Wadsworth (DD-60) World War I
  Sampson-class destroyers
  USS Davis (DD-65) World War I – Rum Patrol
  USS Allen (DD-66) World War I – Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Caldwell-class destroyer
  USS Manley (DD-74) World War I – Guadalcanal Campaign – Operation Flintlock – Battle of Saipan – Philippines campaign (1944-45)
  Wickes-class destroyers
  USS Wickes (DD-75) World War I – Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  USS Philip (DD-76) World War I – Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  USS Woolsey (DD-77) World War I
  USS Evans (DD-78) Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  USS Buchanan (DD-131) Destroyers for Bases Agreement – St. Nazaire Raid
  USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  USS Hale (DD-133) Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  USS Crowninshield (DD-134) Destroyers for Bases Agreement
  Clemson-class destroyers
  USS Preble (DD-345) Attack on Pearl Harbor – Guadalcanal Campaign
  USS Sicard (DD-346) Attack on Pearl Harbor – Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
  USS Pruitt (DD-347) Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Thetis-class patrol boat
  USCGC Aurora (WPC-103)
  USCGC Calypso (WPC-104)
  USCGC Daphne (WPC-106)
  USCGC Hermes (WPC-109)
  USCGC Icarus (WPC-110) sank U-352
  USCGC Perseus (WPC-114)
  USCGC Thetis (WPC-115) sank U-157
  Farragut-class destroyers (1934)
  USS Dewey (DD-349) Attack on Pearl Harbor – Battle of the Coral Sea – Battle of Midway – Guadalcanal Campaign – Battle of the Eastern Solomons – Battle of the Philippine Sea
  The J-class yacht Ranger, 1936
  Mahan-class destroyers
  USS Drayton (DD-366) Battle of Tassafaronga Philippines campaign (1944-45)
  USS Lamson (DD-367) Battle of Tassafaronga - Philippines campaign (1944-45) – sunk in test Able of Operation Crossroads
  Somers-class destroyers
  USS Sampson (DD-394)
  USS Davis (DD-395)
  USS Jouett (DD-396) Invasion of Normandy
  Sims-class destroyers
  USS Sims (DD-409) Battle of the Coral Sea
  USS Hughes (DD-410) Battle of Midway – Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands – Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – Philippines campaign (1944-45)
  Gleaves-class destroyers
  USS Gleaves (DD-423) invasions of Sicily, Italy and Southern France
  USS Niblack (DD-424) invasions of Sicily, Italy and Southern France
  USS Livermore (DD-429) invasions of North Africa and Southern France
  USS Eberle (DD-430) invasions of North Africa and Southern France
  USS Woolsey (DD-437) invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Italy
  USS Ludlow (DD-438) invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Southern France
  USS Emmons (DD-457) invasions of North Africa, Normandy, Southern France and Okinawa
  USS Macomb (DD-458) invasions of North Africa, Southern France and Okinawa
  Fletcher-class destroyer
  USS Nicholas (DD-449) Guadalcanal campaign – Philippines campaign (1944-45) – Korean War – Vietnam War
  USS O'Bannon (DD-450) Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Guadalcanal campaign – Naval Battle of Vella Lavella – Philippines campaign (1944-45) – Korean War – Vietnam War
  USS Chevalier (DD-451) Guadalcanal campaign – Naval Battle of Vella Lavella
  USS Strong (DD-467) Guadalcanal campaign
  USS Taylor (DD-468) Guadalcanal campaign – Philippines campaign (1944-45) – Korean War – Vietnam War
  USS De Haven (DD-469) Guadalcan
caption: Two of the seven Bath Iron Works destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.  The outboard ship made the St. Nazaire Raid.
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