USS Shaw (DD-68)
USS Shaw (DD-68)
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United States | |
Name | USS Shaw (DD-68) |
Namesake | Captain John Shaw |
Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
Laid down | 7 February 1916 |
Launched | 9 December 1916 |
Commissioned | 9 April 1917 |
Decommissioned | 21 June 1922 |
Stricken | 5 July 1934 |
Fate | Transferred to Coast Guard 25 March 1926. Transferred back to USN 30 June 1933 and sold for scrapping 22 August 1934. |
United States | |
Commissioned | 13 July 1926 |
Decommissioned | 5 June 1933 |
Fate | Transferred back to USN 30 June 1933. |
Notes | USCG number (CG-22) |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sampson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,111 tons (normal), 1,225 tons (full load) |
Length | 315 ft 3 in (96.1 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 7 in (9.3 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.3 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 29.5 knots (55 km/h-34.18 mph) |
Complement | 99 officers and crew |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | None |
Aviation facilities | None |
USS Shaw (DD-68) was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as CG-22.
Construction and commissioning
Shaw was
Service history
World War I
Shaw sailed from Mare Island on 25 May 1917 and arrived at New York on 10 June 1917 ready for distant service. She sailed a week later as one of the escort of Group 4 of the Expeditionary Force from the United States to
On 9 October 1918, while escorting Aquitania, Shaw's rudder jammed just as she was completing the right leg of a zigzag, leaving her headed directly towards the transport. A moment later, Aquitania struck Shaw, cutting off 90 feet (27 m) of the destroyer's bow, mangling her bridge and setting her on fire. Shaw's crew brought her damage under control, and a skeleton crew of 21 men took the wreck 40 miles into port under her own power. Twelve men died in the accident.
Shaw remained under repair at Portsmouth, England, until 29 May 1919 when she sailed for the United States. She arrived at New York on 17 June 1919 and moved to the
United States Coast Guard
Shaw was struck from the Navy list on 25 March 1926 and transferred to the Coast Guard the same day, to serve in the Rum Patrol. She was returned to the Navy by the Coast Guard and reinstated on the Navy list effective 30 June 1933.
Her name was canceled on 1 November 1933 for assignment to a
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.