USS Patterson (DD-36)
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USS Patterson (DD-36) underway, circa 1916, halftone reproduction.
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| Name: | Patterson |
| Namesake: | Captain Daniel Patterson |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Cost: | $633,161.80 |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1910 |
| Launched: | 29 April 1911 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss Georgeanne Pollock Patterson |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1911 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 January 1919 |
| Struck: | 28 June 1934 |
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| Fate: | transferred to the United States Coast Guard |
| Status: | sold for scrap 2 May 1934, scrapped in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments |
| Notes: | Patterson lost her name to new construction on July 1, 1933 |
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USCG Patterson (CG-16) circa 1928 on Coast Guard service, location unknown.
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| Name: | Patterson |
| Acquired: | 28 April 1924 |
| Commissioned: | 24 November 1924 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1930 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:CG-16 |
| Fate: | returned to the US Navy, 8 October 1930 |
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| Class and type: | Paulding-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean) |
| Installed power: | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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| Complement: | 4 officers 87 enlisted |
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The first USS Patterson (DD-36) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and later in the United States Coast Guard, designated as CG-16. She was named for Daniel Patterson.
Patterson was laid down on 29 March 1910 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia; launched on 29 April 1911; sponsored by Miss Georgeanne Pollock Patterson; and commissioned on 11 October 1911, Lieutenant Commander John M. Luby in command.
Patterson departed Philadelphia on 23 October 1911, calling at Newport, Rhode Island, and New York City, before arriving at Boston on 2 November, her homeport for operations off the New England Coast, the Virginia Capes, and south to Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She arrived off Vera Cruz from Pensacola on 20 May 1914 and headed home four days later.
As America entered World War I, Patterson patrolled along the New England Coast in the approaches to Newport and Boston to safeguard inbound trans-Atlantic convoys. One patrol mission took her as far north as St. Johns, Newfoundland.
The first United States help to the hard-pressed allies was the assignment of US destroyers to the British Fleet to help combat enemy submarines that threatened to cut the sea lifelines to the British Isles. Patterson was the flagship of the second division of destroyers to cross the Atlantic on this mission. But the destroyers could not make it across the North Atlantic without refueling. Newly commissioned fleet oiler Maumee, whose executive officer and chief engineer was Lieutenant Chester W. Nimitz, stationed herself in mid-Atlantic, between Boston and Queenstown, Ireland.
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