USS Drayton (DD-23)
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USS Drayton (DD-23) running builder's trials in 1910, prior to installation of her armament.
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| Name: | Drayton |
| Namesake: | Captain Percival Drayton |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 19 August 1909 |
| Launched: | 22 August 1910 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss E. G. Drayton, niece of Captain Drayton |
| Commissioned: | 29 October 1910 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 November 1919 |
| Struck: | 8 March 1935 |
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| Fate: | sold 28 June 1935 |
| Status: | scrapped in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments |
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| Class and type: | Paulding-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean) |
| Installed power: | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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| Complement: | 4 officers 97 enlisted |
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USS Drayton (DD-23) was a Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the first ship named for Captain Percival Drayton.
Drayton was launched on 22 August 1910 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Miss E. G. Drayton, niece of Captain Drayton, and commissioned on 29 October 1910, Lieutenant Commander H. C. Dinger in command.
Drayton arrived at Key West, Florida on 21 December 1910, to cruise in Cuban waters and on the east coast in exercises and development problems. She sailed from Key West on 9 April 1914 to serve on blockade duty off Mexico and take refugees out of the troubled areas, returning to New York on 1 June, and to Newport on 1 August.
Drayton served on neutrality patrol and conducted torpedo and gunnery exercises out of Newport, Rhode Island and in the Caribbean. Calling at Jacksonville, Florida from 5–11 April 1917, she took over the German steamer Frieda Leonhardt and interned her crew in accordance with a Presidential proclamation issued upon American entry into World War I. Drayton arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on 12 April, and the next day reported for duty with the Patrol Force off the east coast serving until 4 May, when she entered Boston Navy Yard to fit out for distant service.
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