USS Tucker (DD-57)
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USS Tucker (DD-57), underway while running trials, circa 19 March 1916. Note the ice accumulated amidships.
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| Name: | Tucker |
| Namesake: | Commodore Samuel Tucker |
| Ordered: | 1913 |
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| Cost: | $873,155.90 (hull and machinery) |
| Yard number: | 226 |
| Laid down: | 9 November 1914 |
| Launched: | 4 May 1915 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. William Garty |
| Commissioned: | 11 April 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 May 1921 |
| Struck: | 24 October 1936 |
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| Fate: | transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 25 March 1926 |
| Status: | Sold on 10 December 1936 and scrapped. |
Tucker in the service of the United States Coast Guard, c. 1926–1933
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| Name: | Tucker |
| Acquired: | 26 March 1926 |
| Commissioned: | 29 September 1926 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 June 1933 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:CG-23 |
| Fate: | returned to U.S. Navy, 30 June 1933 |
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| Class and type: | Tucker-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.09 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 1⁄2 in (2.858 m) (mean) |
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| Speed: | 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h) |
| Complement: | 5 officers 96 enlisted |
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USS Tucker (Destroyer No. 57/DD-57) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the first U.S. Navy vessel named for Samuel Tucker.
Tucker was laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, in November 1914 and launched in May 1915. The ship was a little more than 315 feet (96 m) in length, nearly 30 feet (9.1 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,090 long tons (1,110 t). She was armed with four 4 in (100 mm)/50 caliber guns and had eight 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes. Tucker was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h).
After her April 1916 commissioning, Tucker sailed in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Tucker was part of the second U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Tucker made several rescues of passengers and crew from ships sunk by U-boats. For her part in rescuing crewmen from the Dupetit-Thouars in August 1918, Tucker received a commendation from the Préfet Maritime. In June, Tucker was transferred to Brest, France, and spent the remainder of the war there.
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