USS Yarnall (DD-143)
![]() USS Yarnall, East River, New York City
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Name | USS Yarnall |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Yard number | 458 |
Laid down | 12 February 1918 |
Launched | 19 June 1918 |
Commissioned | 29 November 1918 |
Decommissioned | 29 May 1922 |
Recommissioned | 19 April 1930 |
Decommissioned | 30 December 1936 |
Recommissioned | 4 October 1939 |
Decommissioned | 23 October 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-143 |
Fate | Transferred to UK, 23 October 1940 |
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Name | HMS Lincoln |
Commissioned | 23 October 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: G42 |
Fate | Transferred to USSR as a parts hulk , 26 August 1944; returned by Soviet Union August 1952 and sold for scrap |
Notes | Transferred to Norway February 1942 |
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Name | HNoMS Lincoln |
Acquired | February 1942 |
Fate | Returned to United Kingdom, 25 December 1943 |
Notes | loaned to Canada July 1942; returned to United Kingdom 25 December 1943 |
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Name | Druzhny (Friendly) |
Acquired | 26 August 1944 used as a parts hulk |
Fate | Returned to United Kingdom for scrapping, 23 August 1952 |
Notes | May have been in active Soviet Navy service, 23 September 1944 to end of World War II |
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Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1154 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 11+1⁄4 in (9.430 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 10+1⁄4 in (3.004 m) |
Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Yarnall (DD–143) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Lincoln, to the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Lincoln, and subsequently to the Soviet Navy as Druzhny.
Construction and career
Named for
Assigned to Division 15, Destroyer Force, Yarnall served briefly with United States naval forces in
After almost eight years of inactivity, the destroyer was recommissioned at San Diego on 19 April 1930. Assigned initially to Division 11, Squadron 10,
As a part of President
Yarnall was one of the 50 elderly destroyers chosen to be transferred to the Royal Navy in return for the right to establish American bases on British territory in the western hemisphere. She sailed to St. John's, Newfoundland, where she was decommissioned by the United States Navy on 23 October 1940; and, that same day, the Royal Navy commissioned her as Town-class destroyer HMS Lincoln with the pennant number G42.
The veteran destroyer departed St. John's on 3 November and arrived in
After the refit, she was transferred to the
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On 26 August 1944, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy and renamed Druzhny (rus. Дружный, "Friendly"). There is some disagreement on her career in the Soviet Navy. Western sources indicate she was cannibalized to provide spare parts for eight sister ships provided to the Soviet Union in late 1944; one Russian source indicates she was used on active duty from 23 September 1944 until the end of the war, and was returned in August 1952 to Britain where she was sold for scrap.
Notes
- ^ Lenton&Colledge (1968) p.90
References
- Destroyers for Great Britain: A History of 50 Town Class Ships Transferred From the United States to Great Britain in 1940 (Rev. and expanded ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. 1988. ISBN 0-87021-782-8.
- Lenton, H.T. and Colledge, J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday and Company.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
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- navsource.org: USS Yarnall
- hazegray.org: USS Yarnall
- SovietNavy-WW2: Таун ("Town") class at the Wayback Machine (archived September 3, 2002)
- U-boat.net: Dostojnyj