- USS Beale (DD-40)
USS "Beale" (DD-40), a "Paulding"-class
destroyer in theUnited States Navy duringWorld War I and later in theUnited States Coast Guard , designated CG-9. She was the first ship of the Navy to be named forEdward Fitzgerald Beale ."Beale" was launched
30 April 1912 byWilliam Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; sponsored by Mrs. John R. McLean, daughter of Lieutenant Beale; and commissioned30 August 1912 , Lieutenant (junior grade)C. T. Blackburn in command."Beale" joined the 5th Group,
Torpedo Flotilla , Atlantic Fleet, and cruised along the Atlantic coast and in Mexican andCaribbean waters until placed in reserve13 December 1915 . Reactivated, with a reduced crew,5 January 1916 , she served onNeutrality Patrol along the Atlantic coast until placed in full commission22 March 1917 . Joining theAtlantic Destroyer Force , she arrived atQueenstown, Ireland ,5 February 1918 ."Beale" operated out of Queenstown on convoy and patrol duty until the end of World War I. She returned to the
United States in December 1918 and served with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve atPhiladelphia Navy Yard 25 October 1919 . Reactivated in 1924, "Beale" was transferred to the Coast Guard28 April 1924 for use in enforcing the Prohibition Act. She was returned to the Navy18 October 1930 and was laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard until scrapped in 1934.ource
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