USS Allen (DD-66)
USS Allen
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| Name: | USS Allen |
| Namesake: | Lieutenant William Henry Allen (1784–1813) |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1915 |
| Launched: | 5 December 1916 |
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| Struck: | 1 November 1945 |
| Identification: | DD-66 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 26 September 1946. |
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| Class and type: | Sampson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.09 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 7 in (9.32 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
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| Speed: | 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h) |
| Complement: | 99 officers and crew |
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Fitted with radar in WW-2, SC and SU type antennas seen mounted on ship by late 1942. |
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USS Allen (DD-66) was a Sampson-class destroyer of the United States Navy launched in 1916. She was the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant William Henry Allen (1784–1813), a naval officer during the War of 1812. She was the longest serving destroyer on the Naval Vessel Register when she was sold in 1946 and was one of the few ships in the US Navy during World War II which was completed during World War I.
Allen was laid down on 10 May 1915 at Bath Maine, by the Bath Iron Works, launched on 5 December 1916, sponsored by Miss Dorthea Dix Allen and Miss Harriet Allen Butler, and commissioned on 24 January 1917, Lieutenant Commander Samuel W. Bryant in command. Final delivery from Bath Iron Works recorded as 22 October 1917, per the official records of the Bath Iron Works Company. (record Number 68). Construction cost $816,185.43 (hull and machinery).
Over the next five months, Allen conducted patrol and escort duty along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies. During that time, the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies on 6 April. On 14 June, the destroyer put to sea from New York in the escort of one of the first convoys to take American troops to Europe. After seeing the convoy safely across the Atlantic, Allen joined other American destroyers at Queenstown, Ireland, and began duty patrolling against U-boats and escorting convoys on the last leg of their voyage to Europe under the command of Commander Henry D. Cooke. Cooke was later awarded with Navy Cross for his leadership of USS Allen.
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