USS Warrington (DD-30)

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USS Warrington (DD-30) off Brest, France in 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage.
USS Warrington (DD-30) off Brest, France in 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage.
History
United States
NameWarrington
NamesakeCommodore Lewis Warrington
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$663,596.86[1]
Yard number352
Laid down21 June 1909
Launched18 June 1910
Sponsored byMrs. Richard Hatton
Commissioned20 March 1911
Decommissioned31 January 1920
Stricken20 March 1935
Identification
FateSold to M. Black & Co., Norfolk, Va., on 28 June 1935 for scrapping
General characteristics [2]
Class and typePaulding-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 742 long tons (754 t) normal
  • 887 long tons (901 t) full load
Length293 ft 10 in (89.56 m)
Beam27 ft (8.2 m)
Draft8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean)[4]
Installed power12,000 ihp (8,900 kW)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h)
  • 30.12 kn (34.66 mph; 55.78 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[4]
Complement4 officers 87 enlisted[3]
Armament

The first USS Warrington (DD-30) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Lewis Warrington.

Warrington was laid down on 21 June 1909 at Philadelphia by the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company; launched on 18 June 1910; sponsored by Mrs. Richard Hatton; and commissioned on 20 March 1911.

Pre-World War I

After fitting out at the

Philadelphia Navy Yard, Warrington moved on 5 August to the Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island, where she loaded torpedoes in preparation for training with the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet. During most of the fall and early winter, the warship conducted battle drills and practice torpedo firings with the submarines and destroyers of the torpedo fleet. She also joined the cruisers and battleships of the Atlantic Fleet for training in broader combat maneuvers. Those training evolutions took her as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and as far south as Cuba
.

On 27 December 1911, the destroyer departed

Norfolk Navy Yard
where she was placed in reserve while undergoing repairs which were not completed until 2 December 1912.

Upon her return to active service, Warrington resumed operations with the torpedo forces assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, by then designated the

Boston, Massachusetts
during the remainder.

Warrington was ordered to Bar Harbor, Maine and entered the port with USRCS Androscoggin to prevent unauthorized departure of foreign vessels but primarily to protect the transfer of gold and silver, as well as all mail and passengers, from Kronprinzessin Cecilie to shore to be transported by train to New York. The two ships arrived at Bar Harbor on 6 August 1914 with wild speculation in the press.[5]

Warrington ran aground on 20 May 1916 at

Isaac F. Dortch was subsequently convicted on three charges in a general court martial and penalized twenty numbers on his service record.[7]

World War I

When the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, Warrington began patrols off Newport to protect the harbor from German

Queenstown, on the southern coast of Ireland, on 1 June. There, she began six months of service patrolling the southern approaches to British ports on the Irish Sea and escorting convoys on the final leg of their voyage across the Atlantic to the British Isles. The destroyer operated out of Queenstown until late November 1917 when she was ordered to France
.

She reached

Edouard Isaacs
, had the dubious honor of being rescued by U-90. On 1 June, during the voyage back to Brest, Warrington and Smith depth-charged the U-90. Lt. Isaacs, the captured naval officer who later escaped from a German prison camp, reported that the charges shook the submarine severely. However, no evidence of any success appeared on the surface; and the two destroyers, conscious of the importance of landing their human cargo, abandoned the attack and continued on to Brest. They entered that port the following day, disembarked the President Lincoln survivors, and resumed their patrol and escort missions.

Through the end of the war, Warrington operated out of Brest, patrolling against enemy submarines. However, the threat posed by the U-boats diminished considerably after the failure of Germany's last offensive in July and an Allied offensive had made their bases on the Belgian coast untenable. Late in October, Germany discontinued unrestricted submarine warfare and, early in November, sued for peace.

Inter-war period

The

Delaware Capes early in May and remained in the Navy Yard at League Island
until decommissioned on 31 January 1920.

Warrington lay at Philadelphia in reserve until 1935. On 20 March 1935, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. She was sold to M. Black & Company, Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 June 1935 for scrapping in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments.

References

  1. ^ "Table 21 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.
  2. ^ "USS Warrington (DD-30)". Navsource.org. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  3. ^ "Table 16 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 749. 1921.
  4. ^ a b "Table 10 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 714. 1921.
  5. ^ United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. "Androscoggin, 1908" (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Warrington I (Destroyer No. 30)". Naval History and Heritage Command. U.S. Navy. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  7. ^ "C.M.O. 31, Sept. 17, 1916, Navy Dept". Army and Navy Journal. Vol. 54, no. 20. 13 January 1917. p. 637. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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