USS Shaw (DD-373), commissioned on 18 September 1936, was in Floating Drydock No. 2 on 7 December 1941. Shaw was hit by three bombs, which severed her bow and caused the forward magazines to explode. YFD-2 sank, taking the forward section of Shaw with
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