USS Chew ( DD - 106 ) USS " Chew " ( DD - 106 ) was a " Wickes " - class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II . She was named in honor of Samuel Chew . From 1918 to 1922 , " Chew " operated along the East Coast of the United States on patrol and training duties , including escorting a transatlantic voyage of Curtiss NC seaplanes . In 1940 , she was recommissioned and operated out of Pearl Harbor . During the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor , she brought her guns to bear against aircraft of the Empire of Japan , and two of her men were killed helping to man the . For the remainder of the war , " Chew " operated out of the port on escort and patrol duties , until she was decommissioned in 1945 . Design and construction . " Chew " was one of 111 " Wickes " - class destroyer s built by the United States Navy between 1917 and 1919 . She , along with seven of her sisters , were constructed at Union Iron Works shipyards in San Francisco , California using specifications and detail designs drawn up by Bethlehem Steel . She had a standard displacement of an overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . On trials , " Harding " reached a speed of . She was armed with four 4 " / 50 caliber gun s and twelve 21 - inch torpedo tube s . She had a regular crew complement of 113 officers and enlisted men . She was driven by two Curtis steam turbine s powered by four Yarrow boilers . Specifics on " Chew " ' s performance are not known , but she was one of the group of " Wickes " - class destroyers designed by Bethlehem Steel , built from a different design than the ' Liberty type ' destroyers constructed from detail designs drawn up by Bath Iron Works , which used Parsons or Westinghouse turbines . The non - ' Liberty ' type destroyers deteriorated badly in service , and in 1929 all 60 of this group were retired by the Navy . Actual performance of these ships was far below intended specifications especially in fuel economy , with most only able to make at instead of the design standard of at . The class also suffered problems with turning and weight . " Chew " was the first and only ship commissioned in the U . S . Navy named for Samuel Chew , who had been a Continental Navy officer killed in the Revolutionary War . Service history . " Chew " was launched on 26 May 1918 out of San Francisco , sponsored by F . X . Gygax . She was commissioned on 12 December 1918 under the command of Commander J . H . Klein Jr . She sailed for the East Coast of the United States on 21 December 1918 , and arrived in port at Newport , Rhode Island on 10 January 1919 . After brief repairs at port in New York City , New York and refresher training at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , she cleared New York on 28 April and embarked as an escort during the first transatlantic seaplane flight , made by Curtiss NC - 4 aircraft . Following this duty , she visited to the Azores , Gibraltar , Malta , and Constantinople before returning to New York on 5 June . After repairs , she steamed for San Diego , California , leaving New York on 17 September and arriving in San Diego on 12 October . Beginning on 19 November 1919 , she was placed in reduced commission , operating only infrequently with Naval reservists of Reserve Division 10 until she was placed out of commission on 1 June 1922 . At a part of the mobilization effort preceding the U . S . entry into World War II , " Chew " was recommissioned on 14 October 1940 , assigned to Defense Force , 14th Naval District . She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 17 December 1940 which she made her home port . She spent the next year conducting patrols and had training duty from Pearl Harbor . She was assigned to Destroyer Division 80 , with sister ships , , and . On the morning of 7 December 1941 , " Chew " was moored in Berth X - 5 , alongside " Allen " and the decommissioned , which was being used for storage . At the outbreak of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan that morning , " Chew " brought one of her 3 " / 23 caliber guns online and began firing at 08 : 03 , under the command of her executive officer . At 08 : 11 , two of her . 50 caliber machine guns were also brought online and began firing . The gun scored one Japanese aircraft shot down and two damaged , and the machine guns observed no hits . " Chew " maintained continuous fire from these weapons until 09 : 34 , when the last of the Japanese aircraft departed . She then got underway and began patrolling for Japanese submarine activity , just southwest of the port entrance buoy . She pinged eight possible contacts and dropped 28 depth charges , which her commander , H . R . Hummer , Jr . , reported two Japanese submarines destroyed . Subsequent evidence does not suggest " Chew " struck any Japanese submarines . In the chaos of the attack , a number of " Chew " crew members also disembarked and came aboard nearby , which was in drydock , to assist in manning guns , forming ammunition trains , and fighting fires . Aboard " Pennsylvania " , two " Chew " crewman were killed in defending the ship , Seaman Second Class Matthew J . Agola and Fireman Third Class Clarence A . Wise . From 1941 through the end of World War II , " Chew " operated out of Pearl Harbor on patrol . She took on periodic escort duties among the Hawaiian Islands and on training duty for submarines . She made occasional trips to San Francisco and Seattle escorting convoys and screening for other Navy ships , inter - island escort , and submarine training duty . Following the end of the war , she departed Pearl Harbor on 21 August 1945 and arrived at Philadelphia 13 September . She was decommissioned there on 10 October 1945 , and sold for scrap on 4 October 1946 . " Chew " received one battle star for World War II service .