USS Preston (DD-327)
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco
1,308 ts ( Standard)
103.13 m (314 feet 5 inches )
10.30 m (31 feet 8 inches )
2.97 m (9 ft 1 in )
122
4 boilers, 2 turbines, 26,500 shp (20 MW); 2 screws
35 knots (65 km / h)
- 4 x 4 "(102 mm)
- 1 x 3 " (76 mm)
- 12 × 21 " - ( 533 - mm ) torpedo tubes
The USS Preston ( DD -327 ID ) was a destroyer of the U.S. Navy after the First World War and the fourth ship to bear this name. She belonged to the Clemson - class and was named for Samuel W. Preston.
Godmother of the ship was Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; first commander was Commander G. T. Swasey.
Built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was a ( subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel ) in San Francisco
Service history
Application was initially the west coast of the United States, where training and patrols were undertaken. As of December 1921, Preston moved to the East Coast and the "Destroyer Force " of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet was assigned. The ship was operating on the east coast and moved in the winter for training cruises to the Caribbean. This rhythm was interrupted in June 1925 when Preston was assigned to a trip abroad with the " U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters ". This trip was the destroyer in various ports of Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. In July 1926, Preston returned to New York City and began again with their regular routine tasks.
After the decommissioning of on May 1, 1930 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania), the ship was handed over for trial purposes at the Norfolk Navy Yard, from where the Hulk was sold on August 23, 1932 crash.
Naming
A total of five other ships of the U.S. Navy have this name
- USS Preston (1864 ) ( a hijacked a British blockade runner. )
- USS Preston (1865 ) ( a hijacked blockade runner of the Southern States )
- USS Preston (DD -19)
- USS Preston (DD -379 )
- USS Preston (DD -795 )
Swell
- History of Preston in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/327.htm
Clemson | Dahlgren | Goldsborough | Semmes | Satterlee | Mason | Graham | Abel P. Upshur | Hunt | Welborn C. Wood | George E. Badger | Branch | Herndon | Dallas | Chandler | Southard | Hovey | Long | Broome | Alden | Smith Thompson | Barker | Tracy | Borie | John D. Edwards | Whipple | Parrott | Edsall | MacLeish | Simpson | Bulmer | McCormick | Stewart | Pope | Peary | Pillsbury | John D. Ford | Truxtun | Paul Jones | Hatfield | Brooks | Gilmer | Fox | Kane | Humphreys | McFarland | James K. Paulding | Overton | Sturtevant | Childs | King | Sands | Williamson | Reuben James | Bainbridge | Goff | Barry | Hopkins | Lawrence | Belknap | McCook | McCalla | Rodgers | Osmond Ingram | Bancroft | Welles | Aulick | Turner | Gillis | Delphy | McDermut | Leaf | McLanahan | Edwards | Greene | Ballard | Shubrick | Bailey | Thornton | Morris | Tingey | Swasey | Meade | Sinclair | McCawley | Moody | Henshaw | Meyer | Dean | Sharkey | Toucey | Breck | Isherwood | Case | Lardner | Putnam | Worden | Flusser | Dale | Converse | Reid | Billingsley | Charles Ausburn | Osborne | Chauncey | Fuller | Percival | John Francis Burnes | Farragut | Somers | Stoddert | Reno | Farquhar | Thompson | Kennedy | Paul Hamilton | William Jones | Woodbury | S. P. Lee | Nicholas | Young | Zeilin | Yarborough | La Vallette | Sloat | Wood | Shirk | Kidder | Selfridge | Marcus | Mervine | Chase | Robert Smith | Mullany | Coghlan | Preston | Lamson | Bruce | Hull | Macdonough | Farenholt | Sumner | Corry | Melvin | Litchfield | Zane | Wasmuth | Trever | Perry | Decatur | Hulbert | Noa | William B. Preston | Preble | Sicard | Pruitt
List of destroyers of the U.S. Navy List of destroyer classes of the U.S. Navy
- Clemson - class