| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Sims |
| Pennant | DD 419 |
| Built by | Norfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 7 Jun, 1938 |
| Launched | 1 Jun, 1939 |
| Commissioned | 15 Apr, 1940 |
| End service | 28 Aug, 1946 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Damaged in the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946. Decommissioned 28 August 1946. Sunk as target 5 July 1948. Stricken 13 July 1948. |
| Noteable events involving Wainwright include: 13 Dec, 1943 |