USS Crowninshield (DD-134)
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| Career | 
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| Launched: | 24 July 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 6 August 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 May 1930 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 April 1937 |
| Recommissioned: | 30 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Transferred to Royal Navy: | 9 September 1940, as HMS Chelsea |
| Transferred to Russian Navy: | 16 July 1944, as Derskyi |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1949 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1090 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in |
| Draft: | 8 ft 8 in |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 35 knots |
| Complement: | 100 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 4", 12 21" tt. |
USS Crowninshield (DD–134) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I. She was named for Benjamin Crowninshield. In World War II she was transferred to the Royal Navy where she was named HMS Chelsea.
Crowinshield was launched 24 July 1919 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss Emily Crowninshield Davis, great-great-granddaughter of B. W. Crowninshield; commissioned 6 August 1919, Lieutenant Commander R. E. Sampson in command; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.
Crowinshield cruised along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean, participating in 1921 in the fleet concentration in the Canal Zone and Cuban waters. During this exercise she carried Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels from Key West to Guantanamo Bay for fleet maneuvers. From 14 November 1921 Crowinshield operated with 50 percent of her complement until placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia 7 July 1922.
Recommissioned 12 May 1930, Crowinshield arrived at San Diego 4 April 1931 to join the Battle Force. She took part in fleet problems and exercises on the west coast, in Hawaiian and Caribbean waters; operated with Aircraft, Battle Force; conducted practice cruises to Canadian and Alaskan ports for members of the Naval Reserve; and spent from 15 July to 17 December 1934 in the Rotating Reserve. She was at San Diego between 30 October and 2 November 1935, for the Presidential Fleet Review and attended the ceremonies opening the San Francisco Bay Bridge in November 1936. Crowinshield was decommissioned at San Diego 8 April 1937.
Recommissioned 30 September 1939, Crowinshield sailed from Mare Island 25 November and arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 December for duty with the Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. On 9 September 1940 she was decommisisoned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and delivered to British authorities in the land bases for destroyers exchange. She was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Chelsea the same day.
Chelsea reached Devonport, England, 28 September 1940. Assigned to the Sixth Escort Group, Western Approaches Command, Liverpool, for Atlantic convoy duty, she fought the double-menace submarine and air attacks on vital supplies. On 6 April 1941 she rescued 29 survivors of SS Olga S. which had been sunk by an air attack.
Chelsea joined Arbutus 5 February 1942 to hunt for a submarine sighted from their convoy. Two hours later Arbutus was torpedoed. Chelsea opened fire on the surfaced submarine and made three depth charge attacks after she dived but contact was lost and she returned to pick up the survivors from Arbutus.
In November 1942 Chelsea was lent to the Royal Canadian Navy and until the end of 1943 operated in the mid and western Atlantic Ocean escorting convoys to and from Great Britain. She returned to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 26 December 1943 and early in 1944 was reduced to reserve on the Tyne. On 16 July 1944 she was transferred to Russia and renamed Derskyi.
As of 2004, no other ship in the United States Navy has borne this name.
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