USS Foote (DD-169)
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Name | Foote |
Namesake | Andrew Hull Foote |
Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 7 August 1918 |
Launched | 14 December 1918 |
Commissioned | 21 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 6 July 1922 |
Recommissioned | 2 July 1940 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940 |
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Name | HMS Roxborough |
Commissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number:I07 |
Fate | Transferred to USSR, 1 August 1944 |
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Acquired | 1 August 1944 |
Fate | Returned to UK, 7 February 1949 for scrapping, 14 May 1949 |
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Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,060 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS Foote (DD–169) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Roxborough (I07) and later to the Soviet Navy as Zhyostky (or Doblestny ; sources vary).
Service history
As USS Foote
Named for Admiral
Foote sailed from
In the summer of 1921, Foote operated with 50 percent of her complement during summer target practice in
As HMS Roxborough
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Commissioned as HMS Roxborough 23 September 1940, the destroyer crossed the Atlantic to join the Western Approaches Command, guarding convoys during the dangerous last leg of their voyages into British ports. In March 1942, Roxborough took up western Atlantic escort duty out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Roxborough was modified for trade convoy escort service by removal of three of the original
While with convoy HX222 Roxborough met with such heavy weather that the entire bridge structure was crushed, with eleven dead, including the Commanding Officer and 1st Lieutenant. The sole surviving executive officer managed to regain control of the ship, and under hand steering from aft, she made St. John's, Newfoundland.
Returning to the Tyne 10 January 1944, Roxborough lay in reserve there until transferred to the Soviet Navy on 1 August 1944.
In Soviet service
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On 1 August 1944 Roxborough was transferred to the Soviet Navy. She was renamed (sources vary) either Zhyostky (rus. "Rigid")[2] or Doblestny (rus. "Glorious or Valiant").[3] She was returned to Great Britain 7 February 1949 and was scrapped on 14 May 1949.
Notes
References
- Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Destroyers for Great Britain: A History of 50 Town Class Ships Transferred From the United States to Great Britain in 1940 (Rev. and expanded ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. 1988. ISBN 0-87021-782-8.
- Lenton, H.T. and Colledge J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday and Company.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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