USS Shubrick (DD-268)
Service
- as USS Shubrick3 July 1919 — 26 November 1940452 days of the war
- as HMS Ripley26 November 1940 — 20 March 19451,575 days of the war
- Name
- USS Shubrick
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-268
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum Victory Yard
- Laid down
- 3 June 1918
- Launched
- 31 December 1918
- Commissioned
- 3 July 1919
- Decommissioned
- 26 November 1940
- Struck
- 8 January 1941
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 20 March 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Length
- 95.71 m (314 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,900 nmi (9,075 km)
- Complement
- 122
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
William Bradford Shubrick born on 31 October 1790 at "Belvedere," Bull's Island, S.C., studied at Harvard before accepting an appointment as a midshipman in 1806. Following service in the Mediterranean in Wasp, he served in Argus along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
After duty in Hornet early in the War of 1812, he was assigned to Constellation; and, while that frigate was at Norfolk, he led a party of Bluejackets in beating off a British boat attack against Craney Island on 22 June 1813. He subsequently won a Congressional medal for service in Constitution during her capture of Cyane and Levant.
During the more than three decades separating the War of 1812 from the Mexican War, Shubrick commanded, in turn, Lexington and Natchez; directed operation of the West Indies Squadron from 1838 to 1840; and headed the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing from 1845 to 1846.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Shubrick III (Destroyer No. 268)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 26500 shp
- geared turbines
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in guns
- 1 × 3 in gun
- 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- HMCS Buxton (H96)
- HMCS St. Croix (I81)
- HMCS St. Francis (I93)
- HMS Belmont (H46)
- HMS Beverley (H64)
- HMS Bradford (H72)
- HMS Broadwater (H81)
- HMS Broadway (H90)
- HMS Burnham (H82)
- HMS Burwell (H94)
- HMS Buxton (H96)
- HMS Cameron (I05)
- HMS Chesterfield (I28)
- HMS Churchill (I45)
- HMS Clare (I14)
- HMS Ramsey (G60)
- HMS Reading (G71)
- HMS Ripley (G79)
- HMS Rockingham (G58)
- HMS Sherwood (I80)
- HMS Stanley (I73)
- Soviet destroyer Dejatelny
- USS Abel P. Upshur
- USS Alden
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Shubrick (DD-268) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Shubrick III (Destroyer No. 268) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Taken by Crosby, U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph — https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-105000/NH-105315.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons