USS Perkins (DD-26)

USS Perkins (DD-26) underway in 1912.
History
United States
Name:	Perkins
Namesake:	Commodore George H. Perkins
Builder:	Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
Cost:	$603,166.04
Laid down:	22 March 1909
Launched:	9 April 1910
Sponsored by:	Isabel Weld Perkins daughter of Commodore Perkins
Commissioned:	18 November 1910
Decommissioned:	5 December 1919
Struck:	8 March 1935
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-26 Code letters:NOX
Fate:	sold 28 June 1935
Status:	scrapped in 1935 in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments
General characteristics
Class and type:	Paulding-class destroyer
Displacement:	742 long tons (754 t) normal 887 long tons (901 t) full load
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)
Propulsion:	4 × boilers 2 × Parsons Direct Drive Turbines 2 × shafts
Speed:	29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h) 29.76 kn (34.25 mph; 55.12 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	4 officers 87 enlisted
Armament:	5 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns 6 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (3 × 2)

USS Perkins (DD-26) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named for Commodore George H. Perkins.

Perkins was laid down on 22 March 1909 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, christened by Commodore Perkins' daughter Isabel Weld Perkins and launched from the Fore River on 9 April 1910. Perkins was commissioned on 18 November 1910, Lieutenant Commander Joel R. P. Pringle in command.

After almost seven years of peacetime service with active and reserve destroyer squadrons, Perkins recommissioned on 3 April 1917 with Lt. Cmdr. Forney Moore Knox in command. Assigned to the second division of United States destroyer forces in Europe, a division which included Paulding, Wilkes, and Ammen, she operated out of Queenstown, Ireland, from June into November 1917.

During this duty, she rescued survivors of Tarquah on 7 August, and escorted Bohemia from Saint Nazaire to Ireland and New York from Queenstown to Liverpool. In November 1917 she departed Ireland for New York, New York.