USS Jarvis (DD-38)
USS Jarvis (DD-38), running trials on 17 September 1912. Her armament has not yet been installed.
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| Name: | Jarvis |
| Namesake: | Midshipman James C. Jarvis |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey |
| Cost: | $641,380.73 |
| Laid down: | 1 July 1911 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1912 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Jean King |
| Commissioned: | 22 October 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 November 1919 |
| Struck: | 8 March 1935 |
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| Fate: | sold for scrap, 23 April 1935 |
| Status: | scrapped in 1935 in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments |
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| Class and type: | Paulding-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean) |
| Installed power: | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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| Complement: | 4 officers 87 enlisted |
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The first USS Jarvis (DD-38) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for James C. Jarvis.
Jarvis was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey on 1 July 1911; launched on 4 April 1912; sponsored by Mrs. Jean King; and commissioned on 22 October 1912, Lieutenant Commander D. P. Mannix in command.
Following shakedown off Cuba, Jarvis spent a year operating out of Norfolk, Virginia in the Caribbean. She departed Pensacola, Florida on 20 April 1914 for patrols off Tampico and Veracruz, Mexico, during the US occupation of Veracruz. Returning to Norfolk on 16 June, she operated in the Atlantic until departing New York on 26 May 1917 to join US Naval Forces operating in European waters under Vice Admiral William Sims.
Arriving in Queenstown, Ireland, via St. Nazaire, France on 11 June, she commenced patrol and escort duty along the Irish and English coasts. The operations of destroyers such as Jarvis were of immense value to the Allies in overcoming the German U-boat menace. While not credited with sinking any U-boats, on two occasions Jarvis rescued crews of ships torpedoed by enemy submarines. On 19 June she rescued 41 survivors of SS Batoum off the Irish coast, and she pulled 22 survivors of the British merchantman Purley from the North Sea on 25 July. After recovering Batoum's survivors, she braved a possible torpedo attack and positioned herself between SS Mechanician and a U-boat to protect the merchant ship from enemy torpedoes.
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