My dad was on one so your logs are wrong. Previously he had been chief signalman on the heavy crusier Houston. Before her last cruise two chief signalmen wer assigns to her. They flipped a coin and my dad lost and got his orders changed. That is how he wound up in Alaska. He was haunted by that all his life as he believed he should have been with the ship when she was sunk. While I know the historical record is, in the vast majority of cases correct,I was recanting what I was told and I have no reason to doubt it. My dad was commissioned in WWII and had his ship shot out from under him at Guadalcanal. He was also involved in the invasion of Africa but spent most of his time in the Pacific.
“My dad was on one so your logs are wrong.”
The problem here is that there are an awful lot of other people who were far more experienced in those events who are reporting “The Navy had no capital ships in Alaskan waters—and only six PBYs” and no destroyers on 7 December 1941; see Brian Garfield, The Thousand Mile War, Buckner’s War; and DANFS (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships). Finally, the U.S. Government hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack included a list giving the position of every U.S. Navy ship of the Pacific Fleet at 8AM on 7 December 1941.
There were only two U.S. Navy ships located in the North Pacific of the Alaskan Sea Frontier on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. One of the ships was a U.S. Navy oiler located some 600 nautical miles offshore from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The second U.S. Navy ship was a seaplane tender servicing Patwing Four while located in Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Although this seaplane tender was formerly a four stack destroyer before its conversion to a seaplane tender, it was not configured as a destroyer and it was located in Yakutat Bay where it was supporting six PBY-5 seaplanes at 8AM 7 December 1941.
The story has a number of additional major problems, such as the detail about having the ready ammunition on deck. Essentially your story has a lone destroyer charging many hundreds of miles across one side of the North Pacific ocean from Alaska towards the Earth’s equator with ready ammunition on its deck to attack a Japanese carrier task force that has air patrols capable of sinking the destroyer more than a hundred miles away from the ships it would attack. Can’t you see just how far fetched that sounds?