USS Maddox (DD-168)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Maddox.
USS Maddox (DD–168) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Georgetown (I-40), to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Georgetown, and then to the Soviet Navy as Doblestny (or Zhyostky; sources vary). She was the last "four piper" destroyer to be scrapped.
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HMS Georgetown | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Maddox |
Namesake | William A. T. Maddox |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 20 July 1918 |
Launched | 27 October 1918 |
Commissioned | 10 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 14 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 17 June 1940 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-168 |
Fate | Transferred to UK, 23 September 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Georgetown |
Commissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: I40 |
Fate | Transferred to Canada September 1942; returned by Canada December 1943; transferred to USSR 10 August 1944 |
Canada | |
Name | Georgetown |
Commissioned | September 1942 |
Fate | Returned to United Kingdom December 1943 |
Soviet Union | |
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Acquired | 10 August 1944 |
Fate | Returned to UK, 4 February 1949 for scrapping, 16 September 1952 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,060 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
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