USS Roe (DD-24)

USS Roe (DD-24) on patrol in 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
History
United States
Name:	Roe
Namesake:	Rear admiral Francis Asbury Roe
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia
Cost:	$642,761.30
Laid down:	19 January 1909
Launched:	22 August 1910
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Reynold T. Hall
Commissioned:	17 September 1910
Decommissioned:	1 December 1919
Struck:	28 June 1934
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-24 Code letters:NTZ
Fate:	transferred to the United States Coast Guard
Status:	scrapped in 1934 in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments
United States
Name:	Roe
Acquired:	7 June 1924
Commissioned:	12 January 1928
Decommissioned:	18 October 1930
Identification:	Hull symbol:CG-18
Fate:	Transferred back to the United States Navy
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 3 × Parsons Direct Drive Turbines 3 × shafts
Speed:	29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h) 29.6 kn (34.1 mph; 54.8 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	4 officers 87 enlisted
Armament:	5 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns 6 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (3 × 2)

USS Roe (DD-24) was a Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, and later in the United States Coast Guard designated CG-18. She was the first ship named for Francis Asbury Roe.

Roe was laid down on 18 January 1909 by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia, launched on 24 July 1909, sponsored by Mrs. Reynold T. Hall, and commissioned on 17 September 1910, Lieutenant C. H. Woodward in command.

Following commissioning, Roe conducted exercises in the Norfolk, Virginia area until December with one interruption, a voyage to Newport, Rhode Island, and back in early November. On 17 December, she got underway for Key West and winter exercises in the Gulf of Mexico. With the spring, she returned to Norfolk and until January 1913 remained active off the mid-Atlantic and southern New England sea coasts. From January–April 1913, she participated in maneuvers in the Caribbean, then, in the fall, operated off New England. On 30 October, she arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she was placed in reserve on 3 November. In March 1914, she was assigned to the newly organized Reserve Torpedo Flotilla and until World War I rotated between reserve and active duty with the Atlantic Fleet. During the late summer and fall of 1914, she operated off the mid-Atlantic seaboard, and from February–April 1915, participated in further winter maneuvers in the Caribbean. During the summer, she was off southern New England, and in November, she put into Charleston, South Carolina, where she was given a reduced complement status.