USS Trippe (DD-33)

USS Trippe (DD-33) underway in 1912
History
United States
Name:	Trippe
Namesake:	Lieutenant John Trippe
Builder:	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Cost:	$653,564.22
Laid down:	12 April 1910
Launched:	20 December 1910
Sponsored by:	Mrs. John S. Hyde
Commissioned:	23 March 1911
Decommissioned:	6 November 1919
Struck:	5 July 1934
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-33 Code letters:NUQ
Fate:	7 June 1924, transferred to the United States Coast Guard
Status:	22 August 1934, sold for scrapping to Michael Flynn of Brooklyn
On Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era
United States
Name:	Trippe
Acquired:	7 June 1924
Commissioned:	24 June 1924
Decommissioned:	15 April 1931
Identification:	Hull symbol:CG-20
Fate:	transferred back to the United States Navy, 2 May 1931
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) 30.89 kn (35.55 mph; 57.21 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)

The second USS Trippe (DD-33) was a Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and later in the United States Coast Guard, designated (CG-20). She was named for Lieutenant John Trippe.

Trippe was laid down on 12 April 1910 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 20 December 1910; sponsored by Mrs. John S. Hyde; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 23 March 1911, Lieutenant Frank D. Berrien in command.

Upon commissioning, Trippe joined the torpedo boat destroyers and submarines assigned to the east coast as a unit of the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet. For the next three years, she conducted routine operations along the east coast. In 1911, she completed trials and participated in exercises off Newport, Boston, and the Virginia Capes. She made her first cruise to southern waters in 1912. She cleared Newport on 3 January and dropped anchor in Guantanamo Bay 11 days later. Following three months of training at Guantanamo Bay and in the Gulf of Mexico, the torpedo boat destroyer returned north in April and entered Boston harbor on the 21st. After repairs, Trippe resumed training operations off the northeastern coast. On 2 January 1913, the warship headed south once more for three months of tactical exercises and gunnery drills out of Guantanamo Bay and in the Gulf of Guacanayabo. She returned to Boston on 14 April and spent the remainder of 1913 in operations off the coast between Boston and Norfolk, Virginia.