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USS McDougal (DD-54)

McDougal
USS McDougal (DD-54), July 20, 1914.
History
United States
Name: McDougal
Namesake: David Stockton McDougal
Ordered: March 1913
Builder: Bath Iron Works,Bath, Maine
Cost: $832,046.14 (hull and machinery)
Yard number: 215
Laid down: 29 July 1913
Launched: 22 April 1914
Sponsored by: Miss Marguerite S. LeBreton
Commissioned: 16 June 1914
Decommissioned: 26 May 1922
Struck: 5 July 1934
Identification:
Fate: transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 7 June 1924
Status: Sold on 22 August 1934 and scrapped
McDougal
USCG McDougal (CG-6), ex-USS McDougal (DD-54), on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era.
United States
Name: McDougal
Acquired: 7 June 1924
Commissioned: 13 May 1925
Decommissioned: 26 May 1933
Identification: Hull symbol:CG-6
Fate: transferred back to the US Navy, 30 June 1933
General characteristics
Class and type: O'Brien-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,020 long tons (1,040 t)
  • 1,171 long tons (1,190 t) when fully loaded.
Length: 305 ft 3 in (93.04 m)
Beam: 31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)
Draft:
  • 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) (mean)
  • 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) max
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 29 kn (33 mph; 54 km/h)
  • 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement: 5 officers 87 enlisted
Armament:

USS McDougal (Destroyer No. 54/DD-54) was an O'Brien-class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of David Stockton McDougal, a U.S. Navy officer notable for his leadership during an 1863 battle off Japan while in command of Wyoming.

McDougal was laid down by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, in July 1913 and launched in April 1914. The ship was a little more than 305 feet (93 m) in length, just over 31 feet (9.4 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,020 long tons (1,040 t). She was armed with four 4-inch (102 mm) guns and had eight 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. McDougal was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29 knots (54 km/h).

After her June 1914 commissioning, McDougal sailed off the east coast and in the Caribbean. She was one of seventeen destroyers sent out to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket in October 1916, and carried 6 crewmen from a sunken Dutch cargo ship to Newport, Rhode Island. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, McDougal was part of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, McDougal made several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of ships sunk by the German craft. After a collision with a British cargo ship in February 1918, McDougal was under repair until mid-July, and afterwards, operated out of Brest, France.


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