USS Duncan (DD-46)
USS Duncan (DD-46) making dense smoke on speed trials 5 July 1913.
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| Name: | Duncan |
| Namesake: | Commander Silas Duncan |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Cost: | $794,277.06 |
| Laid down: | 17 June 1912 |
| Launched: | 5 April 1913 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss D. Clark |
| Commissioned: | 30 August 1913 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 August 1922 |
| Struck: | 8 March 1935 |
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| Fate: | sold for scrapping, 1935 |
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| Class and type: | Cassin-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,014 long tons (1,030 t) |
| Length: | 305 ft 3 in (93.04 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 2 in (9.50 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) (mean) |
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| Complement: | 5 officers 98 enlisted |
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The first USS Duncan (DD-46) was a Cassin-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Commander Silas Duncan.
Duncan was launched on 5 April 1913 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Miss D. Clark; and commissioned on 30 August 1913, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Courtney in command.
Duncan sailed along the East Coast and in the Caribbean for training, target practice, and exercises until 24 October 1914, when she was placed out of commission at Boston, Massachusetts. Recommissioned on 22 January 1916, she sailed out of Hampton Roads and Newport, Rhode Island for Neutrality Patrol and exercises in the Caribbean, protecting battleships in fleet maneuvers, and guarding the entrance to the York River. From 8–30 September 1917, she escorted a convoy to an eastern rendezvous, where an escort out of England met the ships.
Sailing for New York on 30 October, Duncan escorted a convoy to Brest, France, arriving at Queenstown, Ireland, on 15 November to escort convoys and hunt submarines in the Irish Sea. On 17 July 1918, Duncan rescued from a small boat the survivors of the Norwegian bark Miefield and on 9 October, when one of her sisters, Shaw collided with RMS Aquitania, Duncan took off 84 of her crew, 12 of them wounded, and stood by while Shaw's remaining men took their ship into the Isle of Portland, England, under her own power.
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