USS Wadsworth (DD-60)
Wadsworth underway, probably during World War I
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| Name: | USS Wadsworth |
| Namesake: | Alexander Scammel Wadsworth |
| Ordered: | 1913 |
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| Yard number: | 64 |
| Laid down: | 23 February 1914 |
| Launched: | 29 April 1915 |
| Sponsored by: | Juanita Doane Wells |
| Commissioned: | 23 July 1915 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 June 1922 |
| Struck: | 7 January 1936 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping on 30 June 1936 |
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| Class and type: | Tucker-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,060 long tons (1,080 t) |
| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.09 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 9 in (9.07 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
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| Speed: | 30.67 knots (56.80 km/h) |
| Complement: | 99 officers and enlisted |
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USS Wadsworth (Destroyer No. 60/DD-60) was a Tucker-class destroyer 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 Alexander Scammel Wadsworth.
Wadsworth was laid down by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, in February 1914 and launched in April 1915. The ship was a little more than 315 feet (96 m) in length, nearly 30 feet (9.1 m) abeam, and displaced 1,060 long tons (1,080 t). She was armed with four 4-inch (10 cm) guns and had eight 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes. Wadsworth's geared steam turbine power plant was a successful prototype that greatly influenced U.S. destroyer designs after 1915.
After her July 1915 commissioning, Wadsworth served on the neutrality patrol off the east coast and in the Caribbean. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Wadsworth was the flagship of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Wadsworth reported several encounters with U-boats in the first months overseas. She was transferred to Brest, France, in March 1918, and spent the remainder of the war there.
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