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USS Porter (DD-59)

Porter undergoing trials, 8 March 1916
USS Porter (DD-59), undergoing trials, 8 March 1916
History
United States
Name: Porter
Namesake: David Dixon Porter
Ordered: 1913
Builder:
Cost: $878,683.78 (hull and machinery)
Yard number: 420
Laid down: 24 August 1914
Launched: 26 August 1915
Sponsored by: Miss Georgiana Porter Cusachs
Commissioned: 17 April 1916
Decommissioned: 23 June 1922
Struck: 5 July 1934
Identification:
Fate: transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 7 June 1924
Status: sold on 22 August 1934
Notes: lost her name to new construction on July 1, 1933, referred to as DD-59 afterward
USCGC Porter (CG-7), ex USS Porter (DD-59), on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era.
USCGC Porter (CG-7), ex USS Porter (DD-59), on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era.
United States
Name: Porter
Acquired: 7 June 1924
Commissioned: 20 February 1925, Delaware Bay
Decommissioned: 5 June 1933
Identification: Hull symbol:CG-7
Fate: returned to U.S. Navy, 30 June 1933
General characteristics
Class and type: Tucker-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,090 long tons (1,110 t)
  • 1,205 long tons (1,224 t) fully loaded
Length: 315 ft 3 in (96.09 m)
Beam: 30 ft 7 in (9.32 m)
Draft:
  • 9 ft 4 1⁄2 in (2.858 m) (mean)
  • 10 ft 5 in (3.18 m) (max)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h)
  • 29.58 kn (34.04 mph; 54.78 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement: 5 officers 96 enlisted
Armament:

USS Porter (Destroyer No. 59/DD-59) was a Tucker-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 both David Porter and his son David Dixon Porter.

Porter was laid down by the William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia, in August 1914 and launched in August of the following year. The ship was a little more than 315 feet (96 m) in length, just over 30 feet (9.1 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,090 long tons (1,110 t). She was armed with four 4-inch (10 cm) guns and had eight 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Porter was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h).

After her April 1916 commissioning, Porter conducted her shakedown cruise in the Caribbean. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Porter was part of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish and Celtic Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Porter severely damaged the German submarine U-108 in April 1918.


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