USS Dale (DD-4)

The second USS "Dale" (DD-4) was a "Bainbridge" class destroyer in the United States Navy.

"Dale" was launched on 24 July 1900 by William R. Trigg Company, Richmond, Virginia; sponsored by Miss M. H. Wilson; placed in reserve commission on 24 October 1902, with Lieutenant Harry Ervin Yarnell in command; outfitted at Norfolk, Virginia; and commissioned in full on 13 February 1903, with Lieutenant Hutch Ingram Cone in command.

Assigned to the North Atlantic Fleet, "Dale" cruised with the First Torpedo Flotilla on the Atlantic coast, taking part in a fleet search problem conducted off Maine, and passing before President Theodore Roosevelt in review off Oyster Bay, New York, on 17 August 1903.

The First Torpedo Flotilla, convoyed by "Buffalo" (AD-8), cleared Norfolk on 12 December 1903 and sailed to the Asiatic Station by way of the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal. Arriving at Cavite, Philippine Islands, on 14 April 1904, "Dale" cruised in the islands and on the coast of China until placed out of commission in reserve at Cavite on 5 December 1905. Recommissioned on 10 July 1907, she remained on duty with the Asiatic Fleet, cruising to Japan and China, engaging in torpedo and battle practice and maneuvers with the flotilla, guarding and inspecting the target range at Cavite, and transporting mail and passengers.

After the United States entered World War I, "Dale" patrolled the entrance to Manila Bay from 30 June to 1 August 1917, then sailed to join U.S. Patrol Squadrons based on Gibraltar, arriving there on 20 October. She patrolled and escorted convoys in the eastern Mediterranean until the end of the war. Clearing Gibraltar on 8 December 1918, "Dale" arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, on 12 January 1919, was decommissioned at Philadelphia 9 July July, and sold on 3 January 1920.

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