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'''USS ''Sigourney'' (DD–81)''' was a {{sclass |
'''USS ''Sigourney'' (DD–81)''' was a {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer}} in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War I]]. She was the first ship named for [[James Sigourney|James Butler Sigourney]]. |
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Revision as of 13:22, 27 September 2021
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Sigourney |
Namesake | James Butler Sigourney |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 25 August 1917 |
Launched | 16 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1918 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 23 August 1940 |
Decommissioned | 26 November 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom 26 November 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Newport |
Acquired | 26 November 1940 (from U.S. Navy) |
Commissioned | 5 December 1940 |
Identification | G54 |
Fate | Transferred to Norway March 1941 |
Acquired | June 1942 (from Norway) |
Decommissioned | January 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped 18 February 1947 |
Norway | |
Name | HNoMS Newport |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | March 1941 (from Royal Navy) |
Identification | G54 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom June 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,191 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 4+1⁄4 in (9.252 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
USS Sigourney (DD–81) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named for James Butler Sigourney.
Construction and commissioning
Sigourney was laid down on 25 August 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, launched on 16 December 1917, sponsored by Mrs. Granville W. Johnson, and commissioned on 15 May 1918, Commander W. N. Vernon in command.
Service history
On 27 May, Sigourney sailed from the United States escorting a troopship to France. On arrival at Brest, she was assigned to Commander Naval Forces, France; and, for the remainder of World War I, she escorted convoys through the submarine danger zone extending approximately 500 miles west of Brest. During most of her convoys, Sigourney was the flagship of the screen commander but did not herself have any confirmed submarine contacts.
After the armistice on 11 November, she performed miscellaneous duties in European waters, including service in early December as flagship of the four-destroyer screen that escorted George Washington on the middle part of that transport's voyage to carry President Woodrow Wilson from the United States to France for the Versailles Peace Conference. Sigourney sailed from Brest for the United States on 26 December 1918 and arrived at Boston on 8 January 1919. After overhaul at Boston and summer training at Newport, Sigourney was placed in reserve status at Philadelphia on 1 November 1919, and decommissioned there on 26 June 1922.
Sigourney was recommissioned at Philadelphia on 23 August 1940 and sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia. There, on 26 November, she was decommissioned and turned over to a Canadian care-and-maintenance party. Commissioned by the British as HMS Newport on 5 December, she was transferred as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. Sigourney was struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1941.
After engine repairs in England, as HNoMS Newport, she operated on convoy duty as a unit of the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy from March 1941 to June 1942. She then reverted to the British, and after repairs, served as an aircraft target ship from June 1943 until placed in reserve in January 1945. Newport was scrapped at Granton, Scotland, on 18 February 1947.
See also
Notes
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Wickes-class destroyers
- Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts
- 1917 ships
- Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy
- Town-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
- Town-class destroyers converted from Wickes-class destroyers
- World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
- Town-class destroyers of the Royal Norwegian Navy
- World War II destroyers of Norway