USS McCook (DD-252)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS McCook |
| Namesake: | Roderick S. McCook |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy |
| Laid down: | 10 September 1918 |
| Launched: | 31 January 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 30 April 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-252 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the United Kingdom then Canada, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada
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| Name: | HMCS St. Croix |
| Namesake: | St. Croix River |
| Acquired: | 24 September 1940 |
| Identification: | I81 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1940-43 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk, 22 September 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,190 tons (1,209 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 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: | 120 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS McCook (DD-252) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Entering service in 1919, the ship had a brief active life before being placed in the reserve fleet. Reactivated for World War II, the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy and then to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS St. Croix. Assigned as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic, St. Croix was torpedoed and sunk on 22 September 1943.
Named for Roderick S. McCook, she was laid down on 10 September 1918 and launched on 31 January 1919 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Mrs. Henry C. Dinger. McCook was commissioned on 30 April 1919, Lieutenant Commander G. B. Ashe in command.
Following shakedown, McCook was assigned to Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet. She operated along the east coast until decommissioning at Philadelphia on 30 June 1922. She remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until recommissioned on 18 December 1939. The next year McCook was designated for exchange under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement with Great Britain. Steaming to Halifax, Nova Scotia, she arrived on 20 September 1940. Decommissioned on 24 September, she was transferred to Great Britain on the same date, but due to manpower shortages in the Royal Navy, she was retransferred immediately to the Royal Canadian Navy and commissioned as HMCS St. Croix (I81). Following the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers (but with deference to the U.S. origin), St. Croix was named after the St. Croix River forming the border between Maine and New Brunswick.
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