USS Aylwin (DD-47)
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USS Aylwin (DD-47) underway, circa 1916-1917.
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| Name: | Aylwin |
| Namesake: | John Cushing Aylwin |
| Ordered: | March 1911 |
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| Cost: | $781,279.54 (hull and machinery) |
| Yard number: | 386 |
| Laid down: | 7 March 1912 |
| Launched: | 23 November 1912 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Joseph Wright Powell |
| Commissioned: | 17 January 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | c. April 1914 |
| Recommissioned: | 25 May 1915 |
| Renamed: | DD-47, 1 July 1933 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 February 1921 |
| Struck: | 8 March 1935 |
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| Fate: | scrapped after 23 April 1935 |
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| Class and type: | Aylwin-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,036 long tons (1,053 t) |
| Length: | 305 ft 3 in (93.04 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 4 in (9.25 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) (mean) |
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| Complement: | 5 officers 96 enlisted |
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USS Aylwin (Destroyer No. 47/DD-47) was the lead ship of Aylwin-class destroyers built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of John Cushing Aylwin, a U.S. Navy officer killed in action aboard Constitution during the War of 1812.
Aylwin was laid down by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia in March 1912 and launched in November. The ship was a little more than 305 ft (93 m) in length, just over 30 ft (9.1 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,036 long tons (1,053 t). She was armed with four 4 in (100 mm) guns and had eight 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. Aylwin was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h)
Aylwin failed to make her contracted speed of 29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h) in builder's trials in August 1913, but was eventually accepted by the U.S. Navy and commissioned in January 1914. On 6 April, two sailors on board Aylwin died when she suffered an explosion in her No. 1 fire room. Out of commission while repairs were made, Aylwin was recommissioned in May 1915 and joined the Atlantic Fleet. In October 1916, she was one of several U.S. destroyers sent to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket.
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