USS MacKenzie (DD-175)
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS MacKenzie |
Namesake | Alexander Slidell MacKenzie |
Builder | San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 4 July 1918 |
Launched | 29 September 1918 |
Commissioned | 25 July 1919 |
Decommissioned | 27 May 1922 |
Recommissioned | 6 November 1939 |
Decommissioned | 24 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-175 |
Fate | Transferred to Canada, 24 September 1940 |
Canada | |
Name | HMCS Annapolis |
Namesake | Annapolis River of Nova Scotia |
Commissioned | 24 September 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: I04 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic, 1941-43 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 4 June 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,200 tons (full load) |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.82 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 11+1⁄4 in (9.43 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 145 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS MacKenzie (DD–175) was a
Construction and career
The second Navy ship to be named for
Following commissioning and shakedown, MacKenzie became a unit of the
In 1940, the ship was one of 50 destroyers exchanged for strategic bases off the North American coast under the terms of the
Following the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers, HMCS Annapolis was named after the Annapolis River of Nova Scotia;[4] and, with deference to the U.S. origin, sharing a name of significance to the United States Naval Academy.
Annapolis's no. 4 boiler was damaged during workup and was removed and not replaced, together with a funnel, during repair which continued until February 1941.
The ship's bell of HMCS Annapolis is currently held by the town of Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia. The Christening Bells Project at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum includes information from the ship's bell of HMCS Annapolis, which was used for baptism of babies on board ship.[6]
Notes
- ^ Hague 1988, p. 14.
- ^ a b c d "MacKenzie". Dictionary of American Naval Ships. Naval Historical Center. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ Hague 1988, p. 18.
- ^ Milner 1985 p.23
- ^ Hague 1988, p. 21.
- ^ Christening bells Archived 30 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Hague, Arnold (1988). The Towns: A history of the fifty destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940. Kendal, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-48-7.
- 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.
External links
- NavSource Photos
- Naval Historical center photos Archived 12 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine