USS Tillman (DD-135)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Tillman |
| Namesake: | Benjamin Tillman |
| Builder: | Charleston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 29 July 1918 |
| Launched: | 7 July 1919 |
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| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-135 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 26 November 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Wells |
| Acquired: | 26 November 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 5 December 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1945 |
| Identification: | I95 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 24 July 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 8 1⁄4 in (2.953 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin screws, four steam boilers with superheat, four funnels |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Tillman (DD–135) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Senator Benjamin Tillman. Transferred to the United Kingdom in World War II, she was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Wells (I 95).
Tillman was laid down on 29 July 1918 by the Charleston Navy Yard; launched on 7 July 1919; sponsored by Miss Mary Y. Tillman the granddaughter of Senator Tillman; re-classified DD-135 on 17 July 1920, during the Navy-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers; and commissioned on 10 April 1921, Lieutenant Louis R. Vail in command.
Following shakedown, Tillman operated out of Charleston Navy Yard with Division 20, Squadron 9, Destroyer Flotilla 1, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, until the summer of 1921. Operating with half of her normal complement by the following winter, the destroyer trained and cruised with Division 33, Squadron 8, Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Squadrons into the spring of 1922. Soon thereafter, Tillman was decommissioned on 3 July 1922 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
After almost eight years of inactivity, Tillman was placed back in commission at Philadelphia on 1 May 1930, Lieutenant Commander Alfred Y. Lanphier in command. Returning to Charleston, the destroyer operated with Division 23, Squadron 7, of the Scouting Fleet Destroyer Squadrons. Transferred to Division 48 by 1 January 1931, Tillman conducted training cruises for naval reserve trainees and NROTC midshipmen until late in the spring of 1933, when she shifted to Boston to train reservists and NROTC midshipmen of the 1st Naval District.
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