USS Sturtevant (DD-240)
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USS Sturtevant underway, date and place unknown.
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| Name: | USS Sturtevant |
| Namesake: | Albert D. Sturtevant |
| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 23 November 1918 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 21 September 1920 |
| Struck: | 8 May 1942 |
| Fate: | Sunk on 26 April 1942 in a minefield |
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| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 long tons (1,234 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
| Installed power: | 26,500 shp (19,800 kW) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,900 nmi (5,600 mi; 9,100 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 130 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Sturtevant (DD-240) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Albert D. Sturtevant.
Sturtevant was laid down on 23 November 1918 and launched on 29 July 1920 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Mrs. Curtis Ripley Smith; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 21 September 1920. Lieutenant Commander Ewart G. Haas assumed command of Sturtevant on 4 November 1920.
Sturtevant sailed to Newport, Rhode Island, and thence proceeded to New York City. On 30 November, she departed New York to join the United States Naval Forces, European Waters. She reached Gibraltar on 10 December, and after four days continued on to the Adriatic Sea. On the 19th, she arrived at her new base, Split on the Croatian coast (then in Kingdom of Yugoslavia). For the next six months, she conducted various missions from Split to the ports on the Adriatic littoral.
On 16 June 1921, the destroyer was reassigned from the Adriatic detachment to the Constantinople detachment, and, three days later commenced docking and overhaul at Constantinople. During this assignment, Sturtevant conducted drills in the Sea of Marmara, between the twin straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, and operated in the Black Sea. She visited Samsun, Turkey; Burgas, Bulgaria; and Sulina and Brăila on the coast of Romania. From 25 October to 28 November, she flew the flag of Admiral Mark L. Bristol. Following this duty, the ship visited the ports of Beirut and Jaffa and then Alexandria, Egypt, and the Isle of Rhodes. In late December, she returned to Turkey at Samsun, thence to Constantinople in January 1922, before reentering the Black Sea to visit southern Russia.
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