- USS Stevens (DD-86)
The first USS "Stevens" (DD–86) was a "Wickes" class
destroyer in theUnited States Navy during theWorld War I . She was named forThomas Holdup Stevens .History
She was laid down at
Quincy, Massachusetts , on20 September 1917 by theFore River Shipbuilding Corporation ; launched on13 January 1918 ; sponsored by Miss Marie Christie Stevens; and commissioned atBoston on24 May 1918 , Comdr.Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr. , in command."Stevens" departed Boston on
3 June and arrived in New York two days later. On the 15th, she sailed forEurope in the screen of a convoy and reached Brest,France , on the 27th. The following day, she headed for Queenstown inIreland , arriving there on6 July . Assigned to the United States Naval Forces, Europe, "Stevens" operated out of that port and protected convoys on the Queenstown-Liverpool circuit until mid-December. She put to sea on the 16th and, after stops at theAzores andBermuda , entered Boston on3 January 1919 .Upon her return to the
United States , the destroyer was assigned to Destroyer Division 7, Squadron 3, Atlantic Fleet. In the spring of 1919, she cruised toKey West ,Florida , and visited New York, before getting underway from Boston on3 May to participate in the support operations for the first successful transatlantic flight. She put into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 4th and stood out again five days later to guard for the Navy seaplanes' flight to Newfoundland. After returning to Halifax on the 11th, she put to sea and, by the 19th, reachedPonta Delgada , in theAzores . Along the way, she assisted in the search for one of the two downed planes,NC-3 .She completed her mission at Boston on
8 June and, a month later, shifted to Newport, R.I., for normal operations. She visited the southeastern coast of the United States during the fall and early winter of 1919 and was at Philadelphia from17 December 1919 to1 June 1920 . "Stevens" operated off theNew England coast until3 November 1921 when she set course forCharleston, South Carolina . The destroyer returned to Philadelphia on8 April 1922 for inactivation. She decommissioned there on19 June and remained inactive until7 January 1936 when her name was struck from the Navy list. On8 September 1936 , her hulk was sold to theBoston Iron and Metal Company, Incorporated , ofBaltimore, Maryland , for scrapping.See also
* USS "Stevens" for other ships of this name
*List of United States Navy destroyers
*List of ship launches in 1918
*List of ship commissionings in 1918
*List of ship decommissionings in 1922 References
*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s18/stevens-i.htm
External links
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/086.htm NavSource Photos]
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