USS Maddox (DD-168)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Maddox |
| Namesake: | William A. T. Maddox |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 20 July 1918 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 10 March 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 17 June 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-168 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 23 September 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Georgetown |
| Commissioned: | 23 September 1940 |
| Identification: | I40 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada September 1942; returned by Canada December 1943; transferred to USSR 10 August 1944 |
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Canada
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| Name: | Georgetown |
| Commissioned: | September 1942 |
| Fate: | Returned to United Kingdom December 1943 |
 Soviet Union
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| Acquired: | 10 August 1944 |
| Fate: | Returned to UK, 4 February 1949 for scrapping, 16 September 1952 |
| 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: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
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USS Maddox (DD–168) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Georgetown (I-40), to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Georgetown, and then to the Soviet Navy as Doblestny (or Zhyostky; sources vary). She was the last "four piper" destroyer to be scrapped.
Named for William A. T. Maddox, she was laid down on 20 July 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. The ship was launched on 27 October 1918; sponsored by Mrs. Clarence N. Hinkamp, granddaughter of Captain Maddox. Maddox was commissioned on 10 March 1919, Comdr. Edward C. S. Parker in command. On 17 July 1920 she was designated DD-168.
Assigned to Division 21, Atlantic Fleet, Maddox departed Boston 3 May 1919 for Trepassey, Newfoundland, en route to the Azores where she became part of a "bridge of ships" assigned to guide US Navy flying boats NC-1 and NC-4 across the ocean on the first transatlantic flight. Returning to Boston on 22 May, the destroyer operated out of there until she sailed for Europe on 26 August 1919. Arriving at Brest, France on 19 September, she soon joined an honor escort for George Washington, then bound for Ostend, Belgium, to embark the Belgian King and Queen for the United States. Detached on 25 September, Maddox commenced cross-channel service. Until 24 October she escorted ships and carried naval and Army passengers from Dover and Harwich to Boulogne, France, and the Hook of Holland. Departing Harwich on 25 October, the four stacker proceeded through Kiel Canal to visit various Baltic ports.
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