USS Wickes (DD-75)
Wickes in the early 1920s.
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Wickes |
| Namesake: | Lambert Wickes |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 26 June 1917 |
| Launched: | 25 June 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 31 July 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 May 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 26 April 1930 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 April 1937 |
| Recommissioned: | 30 September 1939 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy 23 October 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Montgomery |
| Commissioned: | 23 October 1940 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,247 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.430 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Complement: | 100 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Wickes (DD-75) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Montgomery. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Montgomery.
Wickes was laid down on 26 June 1917 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. The ship was launched on 25 June 1918; sponsored by Miss Ann Elizabeth Young Wickes, the daughter of Dr. Walter Wickes, a descendant of Lambert Wickes. The destroyer was commissioned on 31 July 1918, Lieutenant Commander John S. Barleon in command.
After an abbreviated shakedown, Wickes departed Boston on 5 August and arrived at New York on 8 August. Later that day, she sailed for the British Isles, escorting a convoy of a dozen merchantmen. After shepherding her charges across the Atlantic, Wickes was detached from the convoy to make a brief stop at Queenstown, Ireland, on 19 August. Underway again the following day, the warship sailed for the Azores to pick up passengers and United States-bound mail at Ponta Delgada before continuing on to New York.
Wickes subsequently escorted convoys off the northeast coast of the United States. She departed New York on 7 October, bound for Nova Scotia; but, during the voyage north, her crew was hit by influenza. Soon after the ship's arrival at Halifax, 30 men—including the commanding officer—were hospitalized ashore.
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