USS Welborn C. Wood (DD-195)
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 United States
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| Name: | Welborn C. Wood |
| Namesake: | Welborn C. Wood |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 24 September 1918 |
| Launched: | 6 March 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 14 January 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 August 1922 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1930 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the US Coast Guard |
 United States
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| Name: | USCGD Wood |
| Commissioned: | 15 April 1931 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 May 1934 |
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United States
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| Commissioned: | 4 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Fate: | 8 January 1941 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Chesterfield |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 January 1945 |
| Identification: | I28 |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.82 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄2 in (9.436 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
| Propulsion: | geared turbines |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 111 officers and enlisted |
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USS Welborn C. Wood (DD-195) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She served with the United States Coast Guard as USCGD Wood. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Chesterfield.
Named for Welborn C. Wood, she was laid down on 24 September 1918 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company; launched on 6 March 1920; sponsored by Miss Virginia Mary Tate; designated DD-195 during the assignment of alphanumeric hull number designations on 17 July 1920; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 14 January 1921, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Leon W. Mills in temporary command pending the arrival of Lt. (jg.) Brady J. Dayton 11 days later.
Welborn C. Wood operated off the eastern seaboard with the Atlantic Fleet, on a routine schedule of exercises and maneuvers until decommissioned at Philadelphia on 8 August 1922.
During the 1920s Prohibition gave rise to smuggling of illicit liquor into the United States. In an attempt to deal with this problem, 25 older destroyers were transferred by the Navy to the Treasury Department for service with the Coast Guard to try to enforce a complete Prohibition. Some began to show signs of wear and tear after the often arduous pace of operations on the Rum Patrol and required replacement. Accordingly, five of the newer "flush deck" destroyers were transferred to the Treasury Department in 1930 and 1931.
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