USS Wainwright (DD-62)

USS Wainwright, c. 1916–1922
History
United States
Name:	USS Wainwright
Namesake:	Jonathan Wainwright Jonathan Wainwright, Jr. Richard Wainwright
Ordered:	1913
Builder:	New York Shipbuilding Camden, New Jersey
Yard number:	151
Laid down:	1 September 1914
Launched:	12 June 1915
Sponsored by:	Miss Evelyn Wainwright Turpin
Commissioned:	12 May 1916
Decommissioned:	3 June 1922
Struck:	2 April 1926
Identification:	DD-62
Fate:	transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, 2 April 1926
Acquired:	returned from U.S. Coast Guard, 27 April 1934
Reinstated:	27 April 1934
Struck:	5 July 1934
Fate:	Sold on 22 August 1934
United States
Name:	USCGC Wainwright
Acquired:	2 April 1926
Commissioned:	30 July 1926, New London, Connecticut
Decommissioned:	29 March 1934
Identification:	CG-24
Fate:	returned to U.S. Navy, 27 April 1934
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tucker-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,060 long tons (1,080 t) 1,205 long tons (1,224 t) fully loaded
Length:	315 ft 3 in (96.09 m)
Beam:	29 ft 9 in (9.07 m)
Draft:	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Propulsion:	2 × screw propellers 2 × Curtis geared steam turbines, 17,000 shp (13,000 kW) 4 × Yarrow boilers
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	99 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 gun 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Wainwright (Destroyer No. 62/DD-62) 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 in honor of U.S. Navy officers Jonathan Wainwright, his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, and his son, Jonathan Wainwright, Jr..

Wainwright was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey, in September 1914 and launched in June of the following year. The ship was a little more than 315 feet (96 m) in length, just under 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-inch (10 cm) guns and had eight 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes. Wainwright was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 30 knots (56 km/h).

After her May 1916 commissioning, Wainwright sailed in the Atlantic and the Caribbean. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Wainwright was part of the first U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Wainwright made several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of several ships sunk by the German craft.