USS Barker (DD-213)
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USS Barker (DD-213), in 1928
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| Namesake: | Albert S. Barker |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons |
| Cost: | $892,808 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down: | 30 April 1919 |
| Launched: | 11 September 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 27 December 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 July 1945 |
| Struck: | 13 August 1945 |
| Fate: | sold 30 November 1945 |
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| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m) |
| Beam: | 31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet 10 inches (3.00 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 132 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 x 3 in (76 mm) gun, 12 x 21" (533 mm) TT. |
USS Barker (DD-213) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy in World War II, named for Admiral Albert S. Barker.
Barker was launched 11 September 1919 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia; sponsored by Mrs. Albert S. Barker widow of Admiral Barker; and commissioned 27 December 1919, Lieutenant Commander C. A. Windsor in command.
In June Barker sailed to the Middle East to join Division 35, US Naval Detachment, Turkish Waters. She served for several months with the American Relief of Armenia and visited several ports in Turkey and the Middle East before sailing eastward late in 1921, to the Orient to commence her four-year tour of duty with the Asiatic Fleet.
Barker cruised in Philippine and Asiatic waters until departing Manila in May 1925. In the next two years she served with the Scouting Force on the east coast and patrolled off Nicaragua, 10–31 January 1927, in the second campaign there. Thereafter, she served a two-year tour with United States Naval Forces Europe, and carried out several goodwill visits to many European ports.
From August 1929 to December 1941 Barker was kept on the Asiatic Station and operated with the destroyer divisions of the Asiatic Fleet. In periods of disturbance in China she was engaged in protecting American interests.
In the small hours of December 11, 1937 the ocean liner SS President Hoover ran aground in a typhoon on Kasho-to, east of Formosa.Barker was sent from Olongapo Naval Station and USS Alden was sent from Manila to assist. The two destroyers struggled through heavy seas at only 12 knots (22 km/h) and did not arrive until 1245 hrs the next day, by which time Hoover's 330 crew were most of the way through getting their 503 passengers and themselves ashore safely. However, a few of the crew plundered the liner's liquor store, got drunk, and once ashore started pursuing some of the women passengers. A party from Alden boarded Hoover to protect valuables, and landing parties from both Alden and Barker went ashore to restore order.
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