Pearl Harbor • Coral Sea • Midway • Guadalcanal & Tulagi Eastern Solomons • Aleutians History Official history Launch Program, 1934 World War II chronology Crew biographies Crew muster roll, 1941-43 Pearl Harbor action report Amchitka casualties The Unknown Sailor Official report of loss Press coverage, 1934-45 Worden’s bell & dedication speech Images Slide show of Worden photos Worden, 1934-1943 New Bedford, 1935 Callao, Peru, 1937 Crew photo, 1939-1940 Don Avery Blue Worden mail Matchbook cover Official chart of wreckage Modern chart of Amchitka Events Walter R. Baranger Memories of Phil Barker Memories of J.W. Childs Memories of Robert A. Low Memories of Herbert Young Memories of Richard O. Young Memories of David W. Zimmer Loss of S.S. Tjinegara Loss of M.S. Snark Loss of U.S.S. Worden Bell dedication program Worden Destroyers named Worden: DD 16, 1902-19 DD 288, 1920-30 DD 352, 1934-43 DLG/CG 18, 1962-93 Rear Admiral John L. Worden About U.S.S. Worden This site is dedicated to the crew of U.S.S. Worden (DD 352), whose ship foundered in the Bering Sea during the initial Aleutians operations in January 1943. Worden was a 1930s state-of-the-art Farragut-class destroyer designed by the naval architecture center at Carderock, Maryland, and launched in 1934 at Puget Sound, Washington. Worden shot down a Japanese dive bomber during the Pearl Harbor attack, and then served at the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, assisted the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, and finally ran aground while landing a spearhead unit of Alaska Scouts and army volunteers on Amchitka Island, Alaska. Out of a crew of 186, 14 died — most from freezing in the midwinter sea. Worden’s Alaska mission was so secret that the sinking was not announced until 1945. Worden’s name does not appear in the official published history of the Aleutians campaign. Nothing marks its grave, and the entire island remains off-limits to civilians. Today, Worden’s bell is preserved as the official command bell at the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in West Bethesda, Maryland. A mosaic mural depicting Worden is nearby. Comments, memoirs and images of Worden memorabilia are appreciated. Please email scanned images or your suggestions to Walter Baranger Jr. Reminiscences of Worden veterans are especially solicited. Maintained in memory of Worden’s veterans by Walter Baranger, ©2003, 2023 Walter R. Baranger