USS Edsall (DD-219)
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Edsall in San Diego Harbor in the 1920s
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| Name: | Edsall |
| Namesake: | Norman Eckley Edsall of Kentucky |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company |
| Laid down: | 15 September 1919 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 26 November 1920 |
| Fate: | sunk 1 March 1942 |
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| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,190 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted; 153 in WWII. |
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USS Edsall (DD-219), named for Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873–1899), was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
Edsall was laid down by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company on 15 September 1919, launched on 29 July 1920 by Mrs. Bessie Edsall Bracey, sister of Seaman Edsall and commissioned on 26 November 1920, Commander A. H. Rice in command.
Edsall sailed from Philadelphia on 6 December 1920 for San Diego, California on shakedown. She arrived at San Diego 11 January 1921, and remained on the West Coast until December, engaging in battle practice and gunnery drills with fleet units. Returning to Charleston, South Carolina, 28 December, Edsall was ordered to the Mediterranean and departed 26 May 1922.
Arriving at Constantinople on 28 June, Edsall joined the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters to protect American lives and interests. The Near East was in turmoil with civil strife in Russia and Greece at war with Turkey.
She did much for international relations by helping nations to alleviate postwar famine in eastern Europe, transporting American commercial operatives, evacuating refugees, furnishing a center of communications for the Near East, and standing by for emergencies. When the Turks expelled the Anatolian Greeks from Smyrna (Izmir), Edsall was one of the American destroyers which evacuated thousands. On 14 September 1922, she took 607 refugees off Litchfield in Smyrna and transported them to Salonika, returning to Smyrna 16 September to act as flagship for the naval forces there. In October she carried refugees from Smyrna to Mytilene on Lesbos Island. She made repeated visits to ports in Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Egypt, Mandate Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Dalmatia, and Italy, and kept up gunnery and torpedo practice with her sisters until her return to Boston, Massachusetts for overhaul 26 July 1924.
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