USS Dobbin is the name of a United States Navy destroyer tender of World War II, named after James Cochrane Dobbin, the Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857. Dobbin was launched on 5 May 1921 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard. From Wikipedia
With their numbers rapidly dwindling, six survivors, all over 100 years old, commemorate the event that propelled the United States into World War II.
