USS Paulding
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USS Paulding (DD-22) was the lead ship of Paulding-class destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Hiram A. Paulding (1797-1878). She was in commission from 1910 to 1919 and saw service in World War I.
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USS Paulding (DD-22) port side, camouflaged, Queenstown, Ireland, 1918 | |
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United States | |
Name | Paulding |
Namesake | Rear Admiral Hiram A. Paulding |
Builder | Bath Iron Works Bath, Maine |
Cost | $652,928.16[1] |
Laid down | 24 July 1909 |
Launched | 12 April 1910 |
Sponsored by | Miss Emma Paulding |
Commissioned | 29 September 1910 |
Decommissioned | August 1919 |
Stricken | 28 June 1934 |
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Fate | Transferred to the United States Coast Guard, returned 1930 and scrapped in 1934 |
United States | |
Name | Paulding |
Acquired | 28 April 1924[2] |
Commissioned | 23 January 1925[2] |
Decommissioned | 18 October 1930[2] |
Identification | Hull symbol:CG-17 |
Fate | Transferred back to the United States Navy, 18 October 1930[2] |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Paulding-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean)[4] |
Installed power | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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Complement | 4 officers 87 enlisted |
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After her Navy service, Paulding served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Paulding (CG-17) from 1924 to 1930.