Royal Navy — Destroyer
DD-70
USS Craven (DD-70)
Service
- as Craven19 October 1918 — 23 October 1940418 days of the war
- as Lewes23 October 1940 — 19451,775 days of the war
Caldwell-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- USS Craven
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-70
- Namesake
- Commander Tunis Craven
- Builder
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 20 November 1917
- Launched
- 29 June 1918
- Commissioned
- 19 October 1918
- Decommissioned
- 15 June 1922
- Recommissioned
- 9 August 1940
- Fate
- Scuttled 25 May 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,020 long tons (1,036 t)
- Length
- 96.01 m (315 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.44 m (8 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
William Conway, quartermaster, of Camden, Maine, refused to haul down his country's flag at the surrender of Pensacola Navy Yard to the rebels 12 January 1861. For his patriotic action he was presented a gold medal by citizens of California and in 1906 a memorial plaque was unveiled at his home in Camden in grateful recognition of his heroic loyalty.
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Conway I (DD-70)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Thornycroft boilers, Parsons geared turbines, two shafts
- Power
- 20000 shp
- Armament
- 4 x 4 in/50 cal. guns
- 1 x 1.1 in AA
- later 1 x 3 in gun
- 2 x triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Craven (DD-70) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Conway I (DD-70) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This image has been extracted from another file — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons