USS Bainbridge (DD-1)
The USS Bainbridge (DD-1) was the US Navy's first destroyer . She became the lead ship of her class of destroyers and was the second ship to be named USS Bainbridge after Commodore William Bainbridge .
The second Bainbridge (Destroyer No. 1) was laid down on August 27, 1901 at Neafie and Levy, Ship and Engine Building Co. , Philadelphia , Pa. The construction was sponsored by Mrs. Bertram Greene, great-granddaughter of Commodore Bainbridge. On November 24, 1902, the ship was placed in reserve in Norfolk , under the command of Lieutenant GW Williams, and put into active service on February 12, 1903. The Bainbridge set sail from Key West , Fla., On December 23, 1903 , to pass through the Suez Canal to the Philippines , where it moored in Cavite on April 14, 1904. Between 1904 and 1917 served DD-1 in the first torpedo - Flotilla of the Asian fleet , interrupted by two brief periods in which it was placed temporarily out of service (January 17, 1907 to April 24, 1908, April 24, 1912 to April 1913).
On August 1, 1917, she left Cavite to move to Port Said , Egypt . There she served from September 25, 1917 in the 2nd Squadron of the US Patrol Force. The Bainbridge took over patrols and convoy security there until they moved to the USA on July 15, 1918 . There she arrived in Charleston on August 3, 1918, and was then used in naval activities along the Atlantic coast until July 3, 1919. It was then decommissioned in Philadelphia and sold on January 3, 1920.
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