USS Davis (DD-65)

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USS Davis (DD-65)
History
United States
NameUSS Davis
Namesake
Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis
(1807-1877).
Laid down7 May 1915
Launched15 August 1916
Commissioned5 October 1916
Decommissioned20 June 1922
IdentificationDD-65
FateSold to the USCGC Davis
United States
NameUSCGC Davis
Acquired25 March 1926
Commissioned4 September 1926
Decommissioned20 June 1933
IdentificationCG-21
Fate
  • Returned to the Navy on June 30, 1933 then scrapped on August 22, 1934
  • 30 June 1933
General characteristics
Class and typeSampson-class destroyer
Displacement1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load)
Length315 ft 3 in (96.09 m)
Beam30 ft 7 in (9.32 m)
Draft10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 Boilers
  • 2 Curtis Turbines: 17,696 hp (13,196 kW)
Speed29.5 knots (54.6 km/h; 33.9 mph)
Complement99 officers and crew
Armament

USS Davis (DD-65) was a

Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis
(1807–1877).

After her U.S. Navy service ended, Davis served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Davis (CG-21) from 1926 to 1933.

Construction and commissioning

Davis was

launched 15 August 1916 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Miss E. Davis, granddaughter of Admiral Davis; and commissioned
5 October 1916.

Service history

World War I

Assigned to Destroyer Force,

American Expeditionary Force troops to France
.

On 24 February 1918, Davis was proceeding in a scouting line with the destroyers

Berehaven, Ireland.[1] The force commander of British submarines, Captain Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, commended L2 and the destroyers for the action in his report on the friendly fire incident. Admiral Lewis Bayly, the Royal Navy′s Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland, in his endorsement of Nasmith′s report, wrote, "Had L-2 not been very skillfully and coolly handled, she would have been lost. The U. S. destroyers deserve great credit for their smartness in attack, and for their quickness in recognizing the submarine as British."[1]

Davis rescued many survivors of torpedoed vessels, and on 12 May 1918 picked up 35 members of the crew of the German submarine U-103, which had been sunk by the troopship HMT Olympic, turning her prisoners over to British military authorities at Milford Haven, Wales. World War I ended on 11 November 1918, and on 13 December 1918 Davis formed part of the escort force to take the troop transport USS George Washington, with President Woodrow Wilson embarked, into the harbor at Brest, France, then passed in review before Wilson.

Davis returned to New York 7 January 1919 and after an overhaul there joined Division 4, Flotilla 8, Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, to cruise along the U.S. East Coast.

From September 1919 to November 1920 Davis was in reserve at the

Philadelphia Navy Yard on League Island in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arriving at Charleston, South Carolina, on 3 December 1920, she operated from Charleston and Newport, Rhode Island
, in reduced commission until arriving at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 March 1922. She was decommissioned there 20 June 1922.

United States Coast Guard

The Navy transferred Davis to the United States Coast Guard on 25 March 1926, and she was commissioned in Coast Guard service as USCGC Davis (CG-21). With her home port at New London, Connecticut, she served as part of the Rum Patrol during Prohibition.

Final disposition

The Coast Guard returned Davis to the U.S. Navy on 30 June 1933. The Navy retained her in a decommissioned status until she was sold on 22 August 1934.

References

  1. ^ a b Doughty, Leonard, Jr., Lieutenant Commander, "Mistaken Attacks in the World War," Proceedings, October 1934.

External links

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