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USS Ericsson (DD-56)

USS Ericsson (DD-56), Steaming at 19.93 knots during Run No. 10 of builder's trials, 18 May 1915. Her armament has not yet been installed.
USS Ericsson (DD-56), Steaming at 19.93 knots during Run No. 10 of builder's trials, 18 May 1915. Her armament has not yet been installed.
History
United States
Name: Ericsson
Namesake: John Ericsson
Ordered: March 1913
Builder:
Cost: $866,166.00 (hull and machinery)
Yard number: 141
Laid down: 10 November 1913
Launched: 22 August 1914
Sponsored by: Mrs. J. Washington Logue
Commissioned: 14 August 1915
Decommissioned: 16 June 1922
Struck: 5 July 1934
Identification:
Fate: transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 7 June 1924
Status: Sold on 22 August 1934 and scrapped
Ericsson in United States Coast Guard service, c. 1925–1930
USCG Ericsson (CG-5) in United States Coast Guard service, c. 1924–1932]
United States
Name: Ericsson
Acquired: 7 June 1924
Commissioned: 28 May 1925
Decommissioned: 30 April 1932
Identification: Hull symbol:CG-5
Fate: Returned to the Navy on 27 April 1934
General characteristics
Class and type: O'Brien-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,020 long tons (1,040 t)
  • 1,171 long tons (1,190 t) when fully loaded.
Length: 305 ft 3 in (93.04 m)
Beam: 31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)
Draft:
  • 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) (mean)
  • 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) max
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 29 kn (33 mph; 54 km/h)
  • 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement: 5 officers 87 enlisted
Armament:

USS Ericsson (Destroyer No. 56/DD-56) was an O'Brien-class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of John Ericsson, the Swedish-born builder of the ironclad warship USS Monitor during the American Civil War.

Ericsson was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey, in November 1913 and launched in August of the following year. The ship was a little more than 305 feet (93 m) in length, just over 31 feet (9.4 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,090 long tons (1,110 t). She was armed with four 4-inch (102 mm) guns and had eight 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Ericsson was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29 knots (54 km/h).

After her May 1916 commissioning, Ericsson sailed off the east coast and in the Caribbean. She was one of seventeen destroyers sent out to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket in October 1916, and carried 81 passengers from a sunken British ocean liner to Newport, Rhode Island. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Ericsson was part of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Ericsson made several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of several ships sunk by the German craft.


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