USS Kalk (DD-170)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Kalk |
| Namesake: | Stanton Frederick Kalk |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 17 August 1918 as Rodgers |
| Launched: | 21 December 1918 |
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| Renamed: | Kalk, 23 December 1918 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-170 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 23 September 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Hamilton |
| Commissioned: | 23 September 1940 |
| Identification: | I24 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada June 1941 |
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Canada
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| Name: | HMCS Hamilton |
| Commissioned: | June 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 June 1945 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic, 1942-43. |
| Fate: | Towed away for scrapping 6 July 1945 |
| Notes: | Became tender 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,060 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Kalk (DD–170) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Hamilton (I24) and then into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Hamilton (I24).
Named for Stanton Frederick Kalk, Kalk, laid down as Rodgers 17 August 1918. The ship was launched on 21 December 1918, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Flora Stanton Kalk, mother of Lieutenant Kalk. Rodgers was renamed Kalk on 23 December 1918 and commissioned at Boston on 29 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander N. R. Van der Veer in command.
After shakedown off Newport, Rhode Island, Kalk departed Boston on 3 May for Newfoundland. Arriving at Trespassey on 5 May, she sailed 3 days later for the mid-Atlantic to provide rescue cover during the pioneer flight of the United States Navy seaplane NC-4 from Newfoundland to the Azores on 16 to 17 May. After returning to Boston on 20 May, she sailed for Europe on 10 July, arriving at Brest, France, 21 July. Proceeding via England to Hamburg, Germany, she arrived on 27 July to begin a 3-week cruise through the Baltic Sea, visiting Baltic and Scandinavian countries on American Relief Administration operations. She returned to Brest on 23 August to serve as a dispatch and escort ship until departing for the United States 25 January 1920.
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