USS Preston (DD-327)

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USS Preston (DD-327)
USS Preston
USS Preston
Ship data
flag United StatesUnited States (national flag) United States
Ship type destroyer
class Clemson class
Shipyard Bethlehem Shipbuilding  Corp. ,
Union Iron Works ,  San Francisco
Keel laying July 19, 1919
Launch August 7, 1920
Commissioning April 13, 1921
Whereabouts deleted on November 6, 1931,
sold for demolition on August 23, 1932
Ship dimensions and crew
length
95.83 m ( Lüa )
94.5 m ( Lpp )
width 9.65 m
Draft Max. 2.84 m
displacement 1190  ts standard
 
crew 101-122 men
Machine system
machine 4 Yarrow boiler
2 General Electric Curtis - geared turbines
Machine
performance 		27,000 PS (19,858 kW)
Top
speed 		35 kn (65 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

The USS Preston (ID DD-327) was a destroyer in the US Navy after World War I and the fourth ship to bear this name. It belonged to the Clemson class and was named after US Lieutenant Samuel W. Preston , who died in 1865 off Wilmington, North Carolina . The building yard was the Union Iron Works in San Francisco of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation .

History of the ship

Most orders for the construction of Clemson-class destroyers were placed on October 6, 1917. The newly formed Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation received orders for 85 destroyers of this type. The Preston was one of 40 destroyers ( DD-296 to 335 ) that were built on the American West Coast at the Group's Union Iron Works in San Francisco . The keel of destroyer N ° 327 took place on July 19, 1919, it was launched on August 7, 1920 and was baptized by the wife of the Minister of the Navy, Josephus Daniels . On April 13, 1921, Commander George T. Swasey put the destroyer into service.

The area of ​​operation was initially the west coast of the USA, where training and patrol trips were undertaken. From December 1921 the Preston moved to the east coast and was assigned to the "Destroyer Force" of the US Atlantic Fleet . The ship operated on the east coast and moved to the Caribbean for training trips in winter. This rhythm was interrupted in June 1925 when the Preston was dispatched to a foreign voyage with the "US Naval Forces in European Waters". This voyage took the destroyer to various ports from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean . The ports visited included Copenhagen on July 22nd and Bergen (Norway) on August 22nd, 1925, as well as Trieste at the end of March 1926, Venice at the beginning of April and St. Nazaire in June 1926. The destroyer formed the DesDiv with sister ships Coghlan , Lamson and Bruce 27 . In July 1926, the Preston returned to New York City and began its regular routine duties again. It was used off the US east coast and in the Caribbean.

According to the regulations of the London Conference of 1930 , the US Navy had too many destroyers. In addition, there were problems with the Yarrow boilers of the destroyers built near Bethlehem, the repair or replacement of which with new boilers appeared to be more expensive and complex than the commissioning of previously hardly used destroyers of the reserve. After decommissioning on May 1, 1930 in Philadelphia , the ship was handed over to the Norfolk Navy Yard for trial purposes to test the resilience of the hull. From there the Hulk was sold for demolition on August 23, 1932.

Naming

A total of five other ships of the US Navy bore this name:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Preston IV (DD-327) 1921-1931 on DANFS
  2. ↑ USS PRESTON (DD-327) on navsource
  3. ↑ Wickes and Clemson Classes Flush-deck destroyers on destroyerhistory

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