USS Trippe (DD-403)
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 United States
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| Namesake: | John Trippe |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 15 April 1937 |
| Launched: | 14 May 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 1 November 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 August 1946 |
| Struck: | 19 February 1948 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target 3 February 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benham-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,850 tons |
| Length: | 341 ft 1 in |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in |
| Speed: | 38.5 knots |
| Complement: | 230 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 5 in (130 mm)/38 guns, 4 .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns. ma.16 21" |
The third USS Trippe (DD-403) was a Benham-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for John Trippe.
Trippe was laid down on 15 April 1937 by the Boston Navy Yard, launched on 14 May 1938; sponsored by Miss Betty S. Trippe and placed in commission on 1 November 1939, Lt. Comdr. Robert L. Campbell in command.
Trippe spent the remainder of 1939 outfitting at Boston. In January 1940, she visited Newport, Rhode Island, to take on torpedoes and Yorktown, Virginia, to load depth charges before heading for the Gulf of Mexico. Following shakedown training in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, she returned to Boston on 20 March 1940. After completing her post-shakedown overhaul, Trippe departed Boston on 24 June ultimately to join the Caribbean portion of the Neutrality Patrol. She voyaged via Hampton Roads to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she arrived early in July only to return north at mid-month for a two-day visit to Washington, D.C.. On 26 July, Trippe entered San Juan once more to begin Neutrality Patrol duty in earnest.
For eight months, the destroyer roamed the warm waters of the West Indies to prevent the European belligerents from waging war in the western hemisphere. During that period, she escorted Tuscaloosa, with President Franklin Roosevelt embarked, upon a tour of bases in the Caribbean. She saw the President safely into Charleston, South Carolina, on 14 December and then headed for Philadelphia and quick repairs. After a two-day visit to Norfolk at the end of the first week in January 1941, Trippe steamed south to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where she conducted neutrality patrols until spring.
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