USS Wilkes (DD-67)
USS Wilkes (DD-67)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Wilkes (DD-67) |
| Laid down: | 11 March 1915 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1916 |
| Commissioned: | 10 November 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 June 1922 |
| Struck: | 5 July 1934 |
| Reinstated: | 29 March 1934 |
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 United States
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| Commissioned: | 23 August 1926 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 March 1934 |
| Fate: | Transferred back to the USN 29 March 1934 |
| Notes: | USCG number CG-25 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sampson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.1 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 9 in (3.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 29.5 knots (55 km/h) |
| Complement: | 99 officers and crew |
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USS Wilkes (DD-67) was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second Navy ship named for Commodore Charles Wilkes (1798–1877). She served with the United States Coast Guard as (CG-25).
Wilkes was laid down on 11 March 1915 at Philadelphia by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., launched on 18 May 1916, sponsored by Miss Carrie Mclver Wilkes; and commissioned on 10 November 1916, Lieutenant Commander Julius F. Hellweg in command.
Wilkes spent the winter preceding America's entry into World War I outfitting—first in the Philadelphia Navy Yard and later in the Torpedo Station located at Newport, R.I.—and conducting fleet maneuvers in Cuban waters. She returned from those operations at the height of the crisis over the German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, arriving in Norfolk on 7 March 1917. Just one month later, on 6 April, the United States joined the war against the Central Powers. At the end of April, the destroyer escorted the French cruiser Amiral Auge from Norfolk to New York. On 15 June, she departed New York in the screen of the first American troop convoy to voyage to Europe. She escorted her charges into Saint Nazaire on 26 June then headed for Portsmouth, England, where she celebrated Independence Day. From there, she continued on to her permanent European base, Queenstown, Ireland, where she arrived on the 6th.
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