Wickes class destroyers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Chapters: List of Wickes-class destroyers, USS Waters, USS Wickes, USS Greer, USS Upshur, USS Twiggs, USS Talbot, USS Jacob Jones, USS Stringham, USS Thomas, USS Hamilton, USS Tattnall, USS Yarnall, USS Roper, USS Buchanan, USS Robinson, USS Tillman, USS Williams, USS Gamble, USS Schley, USS Howard, USS Thatcher, USS Rathburne, USS Dickerson, USS Tarbell, USS Gregory, USS Fairfax, USS Hogan, USS Ward, USS Du Pont, USS Crowninshield, USS Dorsey, USS Ramsay, USS Stansbury, USS Philip, USS Kalk, USS Schenck, USS Maddox, USS Crosby, USS Aaron Ward, USS Little, USS Kilty, USS Ellis, USS Foote, USS Ringgold, USS Walker, USS Cowell, USS Evans, USS Breese, USS Montgomery, USS Palmer, USS Dent, USS Leary, USS Hale, USS Herbert, USS Haraden, USS Cole, USS Claxton, USS McKean, USS Taylor, USS Hopewell, USS Sigourney, USS Elliot, USS Woolsey, USS MacKenzie, USS Harding, USS Breckinridge, USS Lamberton, USS Bagley, USS Abbot, USS Lansdale, USS Babbitt, USS Radford, USS Rizal, USS Mahan, USS Blakeley, USS Maury, USS Barney, USS Stevens, USS J. Fred Talbott, USS Colhoun, USS Bernadou, USS Boggs, USS Chew, USS Luce, USS Israel, USS Stribling, USS Gridley, USS Dyer, USS Badger, USS Biddle, USS Kennison, USS Renshaw, USS Kimberly, USS Crane, USS Anthony, USS Meredith, USS Burns, USS McKee, USS DeLong, USS Murray, USS Ingraham, USS Hazelwood, USS Hart, USS Ludlow, USS Bell, USS Mugford, USS Champlin, USS Bush, USS Sproston, USS O'Bannon. Excerpt: Wickes-class destroyers Buchanan Wickes USS Philip USS Woolsey USS Evans USS Little In 1918 USS Sigourney In port 1942 Alongside DD-139 A further 63 ships were built. USS Waters (DD-115) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II, later designated APD-8. She was named in honor of Daniel Waters. Waters was laid down on 26 July 1917 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp & Sons ; launched on 3 March 1918 ; sponsored by Miss Mary Borland Thayer ; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 8 August 1918, Lieutenant Commander Charles F. Russell in command. Although her active service began late in World War I, Waters still managed to get in two round-trip voyages to the British Isles and one to the Azores before the armistice in November 1918. On 11 August, she joined a convoy at Tompkinsville, New York, and put to sea for England. She escorted her charges safely into Devenport on 23 August and stood out again four days later in the screen for four ships headed home. The destroyer delivered the small convoy at New York on 6 September and, following a three-day layover, departed once again-this time bound for Ireland. Eleven days later, she entered the port at Buncrana. She remained there for eight days before again putting to sea. On 8 October, Waters arrived in New York and, but for a run to Newport, Rhode Island, on 31 October and 1 November, remained there until she put to sea with a convoy again on 4 November. This one was made up of 11 merchantmen bound for the Azores. Waters and her convoy were still three days steaming time from Ponta Delgada on 11 November 1918, when the armistice brought hostilities in Europe to a close. She entered the Portuguese island port with the convoy on the 14th. Eight days later, Waters headed west again and arrived at New York on the 28th. The destroyer remained there under repairs until mid-January 1919. On the 15th, she put to sea for another voyage to the Azores. W