USS ''Charles Ausburn'' (DD-294) was a built for the

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during World War I.

Construction and career

''Charles Ausburn'', named for Charles Lawrence Ausburne, was launched 18 December 1919 by

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; sponsored by Mrs. D. K. Ausburn; and commissioned 23 March 1920. Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, ''Charles Ausburn'' operated from

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and

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along the Atlantic coast and in the

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through 1924, serving with a reduced complement from October 1920 to May 1922. During those years, as she participated in fleet exercises and training maneuvers, she aided in the development and application of new ideas in naval warfare. In the fall of 1923, ''Charles Ausburn'' was equipped to carry a seaplane, with which she performed experiments in the rapidly developing field of naval aviation. In late summer of 1924, ''Charles Ausburn'' cruised to northern latitudes to provide plane guard service in the round-the-world flight of

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aircraft, maintaining stations off

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. On 18 June 1925, she sailed from Boston for a year of duty off

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and in the

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, visiting at a large number of ports before her return to New York 11 July 1926. She continued her operations with the fleet, often providing facilities for the training of reservists, until 1 May 1930, when she was decommissioned at

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. There she was sold 17 January 1931.

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*http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/294.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Charles Ausburn (DD-294) Clemson-class destroyers Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts 1919 ships