HMCS St. Francis (I93)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Bancroft |
| Namesake: | George Bancroft |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy |
| Cost: | $1,218,962.89 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down: | 4 November 1918 |
| Launched: | 21 March 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 30 June 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | Hull number DD-256 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada
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| Name: | HMCS St. Francis |
| Namesake: | St. Francis River |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Identification: | Pennant number I93 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1941-43 |
| Fate: | declared surplus 1 April 1945. sank July 1945 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, en route to scrapping. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,216 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,900 nautical miles (9,100 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS Bancroft (DD-256) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in 1919. Placed in reserve, the ship lay idle before being reactivated for World War II. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940, where she served as HMCS St. Francis (I93) in the Battle of the Atlantic escorting convoys. The ship was declared surplus in April 1945, sold for scrap and sank on the way to the breakers after a collision in July.
Named for George Bancroft, she was launched on 21 March 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Mary W. Bancroft, great granddaughter of George Bancroft. The ship was commissioned on 30 June 1919, Lieutenant Commander H. S. Haislip in command.
Bancroft joined the Atlantic Fleet and took part in fleet training activities until 26 November 1919 when she went into reserve commission. She was placed out of commission at Philadelphia on 11 July 1922.
Bancroft was recommissioned 18 December 1939 and served with the Atlantic Squadron on the east coast until decommissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was then transferred to Great Britain in the destroyer-land bases exchange on 24 September 1940.
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