USS Sinclair
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Namesake | Arthur Sinclair |
Builder | Squantum Victory Yard |
Laid down | 15 October 1918 |
Launched | 2 June 1919 |
Commissioned | 8 October 1919 |
Decommissioned | 1 June 1929 |
Stricken | 5 June 1935 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 30 August 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,215 tons |
Length | 314 feet 4+1⁄2 inches (95.822 m) |
Beam | 30 feet 11+1⁄2 inches (9.436 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Range | |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Sinclair (DD-275) was a
.History
Sinclair was laid down on 15 October 1918 by the
After shakedown, Sinclair departed
On 9 July 1920, Sinclair embarked the
On 27 September 1923, Sinclair was recommissioned as a replacement for one of the seven destroyers
On 1 July 1925, Sinclair sailed from Hawaii with the Battle Fleet on a goodwill visit to the Southwest Pacific, and visited Melbourne, Australia; Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand; and American Samoa before returning to San Diego on 26 September. She departed San Diego on 1 February 1926 for fleet exercises off the Canal Zone, returning on 6 March. From 15 March to 30 April, she received repairs at Bremerton; and, on 21 June, departed San Diego with the Battle Fleet for summer exercises off Puget Sound, which lasted until 1 September.
Again departing San Diego with the Battle Fleet on 17 February 1927, Sinclair transited the Panama Canal on 4 March and participated in exercises in the Caribbean until 13 April. On 24 April, she returned to San Diego and then proceeded to Bremerton, Washington for repairs which lasted from 4 May to 28 June 1927. She spent the summer training reserves in the Puget Sound area and returned to San Diego on 9 September.
Sinclair underwent overhaul at Puget Sound from 26 March to 9 May 1928 and rejoined the fleet at Pearl Harbor on 16 May for exercises. Returning to San Diego on 23 June, she sailed on 5 July for summer exercises in the north, lasting to 18 August. From 1 September 1928 to 15 January 1929, she operated off San Diego; and, from 27 January to 21 February, she participated in
Fate
On 22 November 1930, Sinclair was renamed Light Target (IX-37). Due to faulty boilers, however, her conversion to a target ship was cancelled, and she was replaced by Kilty (DD-137). She recovered her original name on 24 April 1931 and her destroyer designation on 11 August 1931.
Sinclair was struck from the Navy list on 5 June 1935 and sold on 30 August 1935 to Learner and Rosenthal, Oakland, California, for scrapping.
As of 2005, no other ship have been named Sinclair.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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