USS Herndon (DD-198)
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| Career (USN) |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 25 November 1918 |
| Launched: | 31 May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 14 September 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 June 1922 |
| Fate: | Transferred to USCG, 1930 |
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| Acquired: | 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 7 March 1931 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 May 1934 |
| Fate: | Returned to Navy, 1934 |
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| Reacquired: | 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 4 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Fate: | Transferred to U.K., 9 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Career (U.K.) |
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| Acquired: | 9 September 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944 |
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| Acquired: | 16 July 1944 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 16 January 1945 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,190 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 26,500 shp (20 MW); geared turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km) @ 15 kt |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in/50 (102 mm) guns, 3 × 3 in/23 (76 mm) guns, 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. |
USS Herndon (DD-198) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Herndon served in the United States Coast Guard as CG-17. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Churchill (I45) and still later to the Russian Navy as Delatelnyi.
USS Herndon (DD-198)
The first Navy ship named for Commander William Lewis Herndon (1813–1857), Herndon was launched 31 May 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company; sponsored by Miss Lucy Taylor Herndon, niece of Commander Herndon; and commissioned 14 September 1920 at Norfolk, Lieutenant Commander L. H. Thebaud in command.
After shakedown in New England waters, Herndon was placed in reserve in Charleston, South Carolina 3 November 1920. She served in reserve for training exercises and maneuvers along the East Coast until she decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6 June 1922.
Herndon served in the Coast Guard from 1930 to 1934 as part of the Rum Patrol.
She was recommissioned into the Navy 4 December 1939. Following trials and shakedown, she reached Guantanamo Bay 23 January 1940 to join the Caribbean Neutrality Patrol. In July and August she operated out of the Panama Canal Zone on tactical and antisubmarine maneuvers so valuable.
HMS Churchill (I45)
Herndon decommissioned and was turned over to Great Britain under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement at Halifax, Nova Scotia 9 September 1940. As HMS Churchill (I45), she served as leader of the first "Town"-class flotilla in transatlantic convoys and patrol duty off the western approaches to the British Isles. Notable events in her career in the Royal Navy include participation in the search for the Bismarck after the German battleship had sunk HMS Hood, and a visit by her namesake, the redoubtable Prime Minister Winston Churchill, on his way home from the Atlantic Conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941. Churchill also served as an escort for the pre- and post-invasion buildup for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Delatelnyi
Transferred to the Soviet Navy 16 July 1944, the destroyer was renamed Delatelnyi ("Active"). She was sunk—probably by U-286—16 January 1945 40 miles east of Cape Tereberski while escorting a convoy over the treacherous route from Kola Inlet to the White Sea.
See also
See USS Herndon for other ships of this name.References
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