USS Talbot (DD-114)
Service
- as Talbot20 July 1918 — 9 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Talbot
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-114
- Namesake
- Silas Talbot
- Builder
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
- Laid down
- 12 July 1917
- Launched
- 20 February 1918
- Commissioned
- 20 July 1918
- Decommissioned
- 31 March 1923
- Recommissioned
- 31 May 1930
- Struck
- 24 October 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 30 January 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,154 long tons (1,173 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)
- Complement
- 122
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
(Destroyer No. 114: dp. 1,154; 1. 314'4"; b. 30'11"; dr. 9'10"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 122; a. 4 4", 1 3", 12 21" tt.; cl. Wickes )
John Gunnell Talbot, born on 16 August 1844 at Danbury, Ky., was appointed a midshipman in 1862 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 12 June 1866. Commissioned ensign on 12 March 1868, Talbot attained the rank of master on 26 March 1869 and of lieutenant on 21 March 1870. He was serving as executive officer of Saginaw when that steamer grounded on a reef off Ocean Island in the mid-Pacific on 29 October 1870 and broke up. Lt. Talbot and four men volunteered to go to Honolulu, the nearest port, 1,500 miles away, for help.
The men began the voyage in an open boat on 18 November and reached Kauai, Hawaii, on 19 December. However, as the party attempted to get through the heavy surf to shore, their boat capsized. Lt. Talbot and three others drowned while attempting to swim through the rough breakers to shore. The lone survivor reported the wreck of Saginaw, and her crew was saved.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Talbot II (Destroyer No. 114)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in/50 guns
- 1 × 3 in/23 gun
- 12 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- HMCS Annapolis (I04)
- HMCS Caldwell (I20)
- HMCS Chelsea (I35)
- HMCS Columbia (I49)
- HMCS Georgetown (I40)
- HMCS Hamilton (I24)
- HMCS Leamington (G19)
- HMCS Lincoln (G42)
- HMCS Mansfield (G76)
- HMCS Montgomery (G95)
- HMCS Niagara (I57)
- HMCS Richmond (G88)
- HMCS Salisbury (I52)
- HMCS St. Clair (I65)
- HMS Bath (I17)
- HMS Brighton (I08)
- HMS Caldwell (I20)
- HMS Campbeltown (I42)
- HMS Castleton (I23)
- HMS Charlestown (I21)
- HMS Chelsea (I35)
- HMS Georgetown (I40)
- HMS Hamilton (I24)
- HMS Lancaster (G05)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Talbot (DD-114) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Talbot II (Destroyer No. 114) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons