USS Walke (DD-416) was a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy named after Rear Admiral Henry A. Walke USN (18091896). Walke operated with the Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean before World War II and fought in the Pacific Theater during the war before being sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.Walke was laid down by the Naval Shipyard at Boston in Massachusetts on 31 May 1938 launched on 20 October 1939 by Mrs. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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