USS Davis (DD-65)
USS Davis (DD-65)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Davis |
| Namesake: | Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis (1807-1877). |
| Laid down: | 7 May 1915 |
| Launched: | 15 August 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 5 October 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 June 1922 |
| Identification: | DD-65 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 22 August 1934 |
 United States
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| Name: | USCGC Davis |
| Acquired: | 25 March 1926 |
| Commissioned: | 4 September 1926 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 June 1933 |
| Identification: | CG-21 |
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| General characteristics | |
| 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; 33.9 mph) |
| Complement: | 99 officers and crew |
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USS Davis (DD-65) was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis (1807–1877). She served with the United States Coast Guard as (CG-21).
Davis was launched 15 August 1916 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Miss E. Davis, granddaughter of Admiral Davis; and commissioned 5 October 1916, Lieutenant Commander R. F. Zogbaum, Jr., in command.
Assigned to Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, Davis operated on the east coast and in the Caribbean until the United States entered World War I. She sailed from Boston 24 April 1917 as one of six destroyers in the first American destroyer detachment to reach European waters, arriving at Queenstown, Ireland, 4 May. She performed patrol duty off the coast of Ireland and escorted merchant convoys through the zone of greatest danger from submarines. Between 25 and 28 June she met and escorted troop transports carrying the first American Expeditionary Force to France. She also rescued many survivors of torpedoed vessels, and on 12 May 1918 picked up 35 members of the crew of the German submarine U-103, which had been sunk by RMS Olympic, turning her prisoners over to British military authorities at Milford Haven. On 13 December 1918 she formed part of the escort force to take George Washington, with President Woodrow Wilson embarked, into the harbor at Brest, France, then passed in review before the President.
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