- USS Doyen (DD-280)
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For other ships of the same name, see USS Doyen.
Career (US) 
Name: USS Doyen Namesake: Charles A. Doyen Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum Victory Yard Laid down: 24 March 1919 Launched: 26 July 1919 Commissioned: 17 December 1919 Decommissioned: 25 February 1930 Struck: 12 July 1930 Fate: scrapped 20 December 1930 General characteristics Class and type: Clemson-class destroyer Displacement: 1,190 tons Length: 314 feet 5 inches (95.83 m) Beam: 31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m) Draft: 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m) Propulsion: 26,500 shp (20 MW);
geared turbines,
2 screwsSpeed: 35 knots (65 km/h) Range: 4,900 nmi (9,100 km)
@ 15 ktComplement: 130 officers and enlisted Armament: 4 × 4" (102 mm), 2 × 3" (76 mm), 12 × 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes USS Doyen (DD-280) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Charles A. Doyen.
History
Doyen was launched 26 July 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts; sponsored by Miss F. E. Doyen, daughter of Brigadier General Doyen; and commissioned 17 December 1919, Commander J. H. Klein, Jr., in command.
Doyen arrived at San Diego, California 15 March 1920 to join the Pacific Fleet in local operations. Placed in active reserve status 17 August, she participated in local exercises and reserve training until placed out of commission 8 June 1922.
Doyen was recommissioned 26 September 1923 and resumed a schedule of training and tactical exercises along the west coast, in the Panama Canal Zone, and the Hawaiian Islands. She sailed from San Diego 20 August to escort HIJMS Tama and to provide radio compass and communication for a nonstop west coast-to-Hawaii flight. Exercises were again conducted in the Canal Zone and the Caribbean in 1926, and later that year Doyen cruised to Bremerton, Washington for overhaul and to Ketchikan, Alaska, and Duncan Bay, British Columbia, for visits.
Doyen sailed 26 April 1927 for the east coast to participate in joint Army-Navy maneuvers at Newport, Rhode Island. She returned to the west coast 25 June and resumed training operations and tactical exercises with the Battle Fleet on the west coast, out of Pearl Harbor and in the Canal Zone. Doyen was decommissioned 25 February 1930 and scrapped 20 December 1930 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty for the limitation of naval armaments.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
Categories:- Clemson class destroyers
- Ships built in Massachusetts
- 1919 ships
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