USS Mason (DD-191)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Mason |
| Namesake: | John Y. Mason |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 10 July 1918 |
| Launched: | 8 March 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 4 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 October 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-191 |
| Fate: | Transferred to United Kingdom 9 October 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Broadwater |
| Acquired: | 9 October 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 9 October 1940 |
| Identification: | H81 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action 18 October 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1190 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
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USS Mason (DD-191) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Broadwater (H81).
The first Navy ship named for Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason (1799–1859), Mason was laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia on 10 July 1918. The ship was launched 8 March 1919; sponsored by Miss Mary Mason Williams, great-granddaughter of Secretary Mason. Mason was commissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard 28 February 1920, Lieutenant Carl F. Holden temporarily in command until Lieutenant Commander Hartwell C. Davis took command 8 March.
On 17 July Mason was designated DD-191. After shakedown off Norfolk, Virginia, she operated along the east coast for the next 2 years until she sailed for Philadelphia. As a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 6 February 1922 limiting naval armament, the destroyer was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard 3 July 1922.
After World War II broke out in Europe, Mason recommissioned 4 December 1939. Under terms of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement of 2 September 1940, she became one of 50 overage ships of this class turned over to United Kingdom in exchange for 99-year leases on strategic bases in the Western Hemisphere. Mason arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2 October; decommissioned 8 October 1940; and was transferred to the British Royal Navy as HMS Broadwater with the pennant number H81 the next day.
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