USS Sterett (DD-27)

USS Sterett (DD-27) underway, circa 1912.
History
United States
Name:	Sterett
Namesake:	Master Commandant Andrew Sterett
Builder:	Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
Cost:	$617,474.90
Laid down:	22 March 1909
Launched:	12 May 1910
Sponsored by:	Miss Dorothy Rosalie Sterett Gittings
Commissioned:	15 December 1910
Decommissioned:	9 December 1919
Struck:	8 March 1935
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-26 Code letters:NTB
Fate:	sold June 28, 1935 to M. Black & Co., Norfolk
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) 30.37 kn (34.95 mph; 56.25 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 Sterett (DD-27) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named for Andrew Sterett.

Sterett was laid down on 22 March 1909 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company. Sponsored by Miss Dorothy Rosalie Sterett Gittings, the destroyer was launched on 12 May 1910 and commissioned on 15 December 1910 at Boston, Massachusetts, Lieutenant Robert L. Berry in command.

Each year until 1913, Sterett operated along the east coast out of Boston from April to December and, from January to April, participated in training and battle exercises out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Though placed in reserve on 5 November 1913, she continued duty with the torpedo fleet. On 20 January 1914, she sailed from Charleston, South Carolina, and reached New Orleans, Louisiana on 2 March, after stops at Cape Canaveral, Miami, Key West, Florida, and at Mobile, Alabama. The following day, she joined the newly created Reserve Torpedo Flotilla, operating in the Gulf of Mexico out of Galveston, Texas. In June, she returned to the Atlantic seaboard, this time based at Norfolk, Virginia, and resumed coastal patrols and Caribbean exercises. Sterett's complement was reduced on 5 January 1916 and, throughout that spring; she operated almost exclusively in the Caribbean.