USS Fairfax (DD-93)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Fairfax |
| Namesake: | Donald Fairfax |
| Builder: | Mare Island Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 10 July 1917 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 6 April 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 November 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-93 |
| Fate: | Transferred UK, 26 November 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Richmond |
| Namesake: | Richmond, North Yorkshire |
| Acquired: | 26 November 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 5 December 1940 |
| Identification: | G88 |
| Fate: | Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944 |
 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Zhivuchiy (Tenacious) |
| Acquired: | 16 July 1944 |
| Fate: | Returned to UK for scrapping, 23 June 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Fairfax (DD-93) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town-class destroyer.
Named in honor of Rear Admiral Donald Fairfax, she was launched 15 December 1917 by Mare Island Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. H. George; and commissioned 6 April 1918, Lieutenant Commander Stanford Caldwell Hooper in command.
Fairfax arrived at Hampton Roads 6 June 1918 for convoy escort duty out of Newport News. She guarded convoys of troop transports to midocean meeting points with escorts who had come out of English and French ports to meet them. Fairfax also guarded convoys moving between coastal ports, and patrolled off the coast until 16 October, when she stood down Hampton Roads bound for Brest, France, escorting a troop convoy. On 18 October, she left her convoy to rescue 86 survivors of torpedoed USS Lucia, an Naval Overseas Transport Service ship, and on 27 October, arrived at Brest for patrol and escort duty in European waters.
On 3 December 1918, Fairfax arrived in the Azores to meet and escort to Brest, the transport George Washington carrying President Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference. She sailed for home 21 December, reaching Norfolk, Virginia 8 January 1919. Her post war operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean were broken in May 1919, when she sailed to the Azores to take up station as an observer of the historic first aerial crossing of the Atlantic made by Navy seaplanes. On 19 June 1922, she was decommissioned at Philadelphia, and placed in reserve.
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