HMCS Columbia (I49)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Haraden |
| Namesake: | Jonathan Haraden |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 30 March 1918 |
| Launched: | 4 July 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 7 June 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 4 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Identification: | DD-183 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada
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| Name: | HMCS Columbia |
| Namesake: | Columbia River |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: I49 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1940-44 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, August 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,060 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Haraden (DD–183) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Columbia, as a Town-class destroyer.
Named for Jonathan Haraden, she was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia on 4 July 1918; sponsored by Miss Mabel B. Stephens, great-niece of Captain Jonathan Haraden. Haraden was commissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard on 7 June 1919, to Lieutenant Commander R. H. Booth in command.
Haraden was assigned to U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters; after calling at Newport, Rhode Island for supplies she departed New York 30 June 1919 for duty in the Adriatic Sea. She arrived at Split, (then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Croatia), on 28 July 1919 and conducted operations from that port assisting the naval force in the execution of the terms of the Austrian armistice, serving as station ship at Trieste and Rijeka, and participating in maneuvers. This duty occupied her until 23 October 1919, when she departed for Norfolk, Virginia, arriving on 18 November.
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