USS Warrington (DD-30)
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USS Warrington (DD-30) off Brest, France in 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage.
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| Name: | Warrington |
| Namesake: | Commodore Lewis Warrington |
| Builder: | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Cost: | $663,596.86 |
| Laid down: | 21 June 1909 |
| Launched: | 18 June 1910 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Richard Hatton |
| Commissioned: | 20 March 1911 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 January 1920 |
| Struck: | 20 March 1935 |
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| Fate: | sold to M. Black & Co., Norfolk, Va., on 28 June 1935 for scrapping |
| Status: | scrapped in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments |
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| Class and type: | Paulding-class destroyer |
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| 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) |
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| Complement: | 4 officers 87 enlisted |
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The first USS Warrington (DD-30) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Lewis Warrington.
Warrington was laid down on 21 June 1909 at Philadelphia by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company; launched on 18 June 1910; sponsored by Mrs. Richard Hatton; and commissioned on 20 March 1911, Lieutenant Walter M. Hunt in command.
After fitting out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Warrington moved on 5 August to the Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, where she loaded torpedoes in preparation for training with the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet. During most of the fall and early winter, the warship conducted battle drills and practice torpedo firings with the submarines and destroyers of the torpedo fleet. She also joined the cruisers and battleships of the Atlantic Fleet for training in broader combat maneuvers. Those training evolutions took her as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and as far south as Cuba.
On 27 December 1911, the destroyer departed Charleston, South Carolina, in company with the ships of Destroyer Divisions 8 and 9, bound for Hampton Roads. At about 1240 the following morning, the two divisions of destroyers reached the vicinity of the Virginia capes. Suddenly, an unidentified schooner knifed her way through the darkness and mist, struck Warrington aft, and sliced off about 30 ft (9.1 m) of her stern. The collision deprived her of all propulsion and forced her to anchor at sea some 17 mi (27 km) off Cape Hatteras. Sterett responded to her distress call first; but, soon, Walke and Perkins joined the vigil. The three ships struggled through the morning and forenoon watches to pass a towline to their stricken sister, but it was not until the revenue cutter Conondaga arrived at 1300 that the latter ship succeeded in taking Warrington in tow. The revenue cutter towed her into the Norfolk Navy Yard where she was placed in reserve while undergoing repairs which were not completed until 2 December 1912.
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