USS Kalk (DD-170)
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Name | USS Kalk |
Namesake | Stanton Frederick Kalk |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 17 August 1918 as Rodgers |
Launched | 21 December 1918 |
Renamed | Kalk, 23 December 1918 |
Commissioned | 29 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 10 July 1922 |
Recommissioned | 17 June 1940 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-170 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940 |
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Name | HMS Hamilton |
Commissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: I24 |
Fate | Transferred to Canada June 1941 |
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Name | HMCS Hamilton |
Commissioned | June 1941 |
Decommissioned | 8 June 1945 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic, 1942-43. |
Fate | Towed away for scrapping 6 July 1945 |
Notes | Became tender 1943 |
General characteristics | |
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 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Kalk (DD–170) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Hamilton (I24) and then into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Hamilton (I24).
Construction and career
Named for
After shakedown off
Arriving at Boston on 12 February, she trained reserves of the
When war in Europe threatened the security of the entire world, Kalk was recommissioned on 17 June 1940. The ship departed Philadelphia on 26 July, arriving at Charleston on 31 July for duty with the
Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Hamilton, which was a
News has been received here of the destroyer Hamilton, one of the 50 destroyers recently acquired by Great Britain from the United States and named in honour of Bermuda's capital. Commander L. M. Shadwell, R.N., who commands the Hamilton, has written to the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. S. P. Eve, a letter in which he says, "I thought it possible that you might be interested to have news from time to time of the ship which has the honour to bear the name of your city."
(The article went on to mention that the Mayor was to open a fund to supply the crew of the ship with newspapers and included the text of Shadwell's letter).
She collided with
Late in June 1941 she commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Hamilton fitting within the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers[3]—the Hamilton River of Labrador.
Throughout her active service, she remained in North American waters, protecting convoys from St. John's to New York. On 2 August 1942, she sighted and attacked a German
Notes
References
- Lenton, H.T. and Colledge J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday and Company.
- Milner, Marc (1985). North Atlantic Run. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-450-0.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.