Considering how fast they built them then they sure did last and other than the equipment being out dated. they beat the hell out of them and they kept on floating! There was two of them that one had the front half blow off, and another had the back end destroyed they brought both in to drydock and cleaned them up and welded them toghter and sent it back out. One of these was the USS Blakely, front 60 feet was destroyed by a German U-boat. The bow was taken from the USSTaylor