USS Stockton (DD-73)
USS ''Stockton'' (DD-73), a , in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1922 — seeing service in World War I — and briefly during 1940. She later served in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Ludlow'' during World War II. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named for Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866). Construction and commissioning ''Stockton'' was laid down on 16 October 1916 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and launched on 17 July 1917, sponsored by Ellen Emelie De Martelly. She was commissioned on 26 November 1917. Service history United States Navy ''Stockton'' spent the last year of World War I assigned to convoy escort and antisubmarine warfare duty, operating from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. During that time, she engaged an Imperial German Navy U-boat on at least one occasion. On 30 March 1918, she and the destroyer were escorting the troopship ''St. Paul'' on the Queenstown-Liverpool circuit, when ''Ericsson'' opened fire on a Ge ...
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William Cramp & Sons
William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company (also known as William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company) of Philadelphia was founded in 1830 by William Cramp, and was the preeminent U.S. iron shipbuilder of the late 19th century. Company history William Cramp was born in Kensington, Philadelphia in 1807. In 1855, his sons Charles Henry (born 1828) and William C., became partners with their father. In 1872, his other sons Samuel H., Jacob C. and Theodore were taken into the firm. The company was incorporated under the name "The William Cramp and Sons' Iron Shipbuilding and Engineering Company." The pilot boat ''Thomas Howard'' was built by the Cramp shipyard in 1870 for the Delaware Bay & River pilots. She was one of the Philadelphia port's fastest pilot boats. In 1890 the company built the battleships USS ''Indiana'' and USS ''Massachusetts'', armored cruiser USS ''New York'', and protected cruiser USS ''Columbia''. Three of these ships took a part in the battle with ...
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