USS Woolsey (DD-77)
USS Woolsey
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| Name: | Woolsey |
| Namesake: | Melancthon Taylor Woolsey |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 1 November 1917 |
| Launched: | 17 September 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1918 |
| Fate: | Sank following accident, 21 February 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,154 long tons (1,173 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.430 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 8 1⁄2 in (2.959 m) |
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| Speed: | 35.33 kn (40.66 mph; 65.43 km/h) |
| Complement: | 131 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 caliber guns, 2 × 1-pounder guns, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks, 1 × Y-gun |
The first USS Woolsey (DD-77) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.
Woolsey was laid down on 1 November 1917 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 17 September 1918; sponsored by Mrs. Elise Campau Wells; and commissioned on 30 September 1918, Lieutenant Commander Frederick V. McNair, Jr. in command.
After trials out of Bath and outfitting at the Boston Navy Yard and the Newport Torpedo Station, Woolsey headed for New York on 9 October to join battleship Virginia before sailing for Europe. On 13 October, she and Virginia departed New York harbor in the screen of Convoy HX-52. After a relatively uneventful voyage, the convoy was turned over to a British escort force on the 22nd. Woolsey then set course for Buncrana, located in the far northern portion of Ireland, and arrived there on 23 October. Two days later, she departed Buncrana and stood down the Irish Sea en route to Ponta Delgada in the Azores. After fueling at Ponta Delgada on the 30th, the destroyer continued her voyage home and reentered New York on 5 November. After about a month at New York, during which time hostilities ended under the armistice of 11 November, Woolsey left New York on her way back to Europe to join the American naval contingent assigned there for postwar duty. She arrived in Brest, France, on 20 December and reported for duty to the Commander, Naval Forces Europe.
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