USS George E. Badger (DD-196)
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 United States
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| Namesake: | George E. Badger |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Cost: | $1,438,690 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down: | 24 September 1918 |
| Launched: | 6 March 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 28 July 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 August 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 8 January 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 24 October 1945 |
| Honors and awards: |
8 battle stars & Presidential Unit Citation (World War II) |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 3 June 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,190 long tons (1,209 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
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USS George E. Badger (DD-196/CG-16/AVP-16/AVD-3/APD-33) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II; she was named for Secretary of the Navy George E. Badger (1795–1866).
George E. Badger was laid down on 24 September 1918 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company; launched on 6 March 1920; sponsored by Miss Mary B. Wilson, the namesake's granddaughter; and commissioned on 28 July 1920, with Lieutenant Commander Albert Gleaves Berry, Jr., in command.
After shakedown, she was based at Charleston, South Carolina, while operating in Caribbean waters and along the eastern seaboard from Jacksonville, Florida, to Boston. Returning to Philadelphia on 6 June 1922, she was decommissioned there on 11 August 1922.
She was subsequently transferred to the Treasury Department on 1 October 1930 for use by the Coast Guard. She was reacquired by the Navy on 21 May 1934 and redesignated AVP-16 on 1 October 1939.
Badger recommissioned at Philadelphia on 8 January 1940, Lieutenant Commander Frank Akers in command. During the next year she engaged in training operations in the Caribbean. Redesignated AVD-3 on 2 August 1940, she returned to Norfolk, Virginia on 12 January 1941 and subsequently tended planes while based at NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and Reykjavík, Iceland, until the spring of 1942.
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