USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193)

History
United States
Name:	USS Abel P. Upshur
Namesake:	Abel Parker Upshur
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.
Laid down:	5 April 1918
Launched:	4 July 1918
Commissioned:	19 July 1919
Decommissioned:	23 September 1940
Identification:	DD-193
Fate:	8 January 1941
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Clare
Commissioned:	9 September 1940
Fate:	broken up for scrap 1945
General characteristics
Class and type:	Clemson-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,308 tons
Length:	314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam:	30 ft 11 in (9.42 m)
Draft:	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Speed:	35.18 knots (65.15 km/h; 40.48 mph)
Complement:	122
Armament:	4 x 4 in (102 mm) guns 1 x 3 in (76 mm) guns 12 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy until traded to Britain at the beginning of World War II where she served as HMS Clare.

Named after Secretary of the Navy, Abel Parker Upshur, she was laid down on 20 August 1918 at Newport News, Virginia by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co. The ship was launched on 14 February 1920, sponsored by Mrs. George J. Benson, great-great niece of Secretary Upshur, and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 23 November 1920, Lt. Vincent H. Godfrey in command.

Following her commissioning, the destroyer was assigned to Destroyer Division 37, Squadron 3, Atlantic Fleet. She cruised along the east coast, taking part in fleet exercises and maneuvers. The ship was placed out of commission at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 August 1922.

Abel P. Upshur assumed duties at the Washington Navy Yard in March 1928 as a training ship for Naval Reserve personnel from the District of Columbia and continued this routine until 5 November 1930, when the ship was transferred to the U.S. Treasury Department. Her name was then struck from the Navy list. The ship served the Coast Guard attempting to prevent the smuggling of liquor into the United States.

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