USS ''Stribling'' (DD-96) was a in the
United States Navy during
World War I and the years following. She was the first ship named in honor of
Cornelius Stribling
Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling (22 September 1796 – 17 January 1880) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who served during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, the Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War.
Biography
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Construction and commissioning
''Stribling'' was
laid down at
Quincy, Massachusetts
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, on 14 December 1917 by the
Fore River Shipbuilding Company. The ship was
launched on 29 May 1918,
sponsored by Miss Mary Calvert Stribling. The destroyer was
commissioned at the
Boston Navy Yard on 16 August 1918.
Service history
On 31 August 1918, ''Stribling'' departed
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to escort a
convoy across the
Atlantic Ocean. However, machinery trouble forced her back into New York the following day. After almost three weeks in port, she got underway again on 18 September 1918, this time as an escort to a
Gibraltar
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-bound convoy. She fueled at
Ponta Delgada in the
Azores and made Gibraltar in early October 1918. From there, she sailed with a convoy for
Marseilles
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on 10 October 1918. For the next month, she made several Gibraltar-to-Marseilles circuits with
Allied
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convoys.
After the
Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I, ''Stribling'' steamed to
Venice
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,
Italy, to investigate post-armistice conditions there and at various other ports on Italy's
Adriatic
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coast and in
Dalmatia
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. At the completion of that duty, she headed back to the United States, arriving home in July 1919. ''Stribling'' entered the Portsmouth Navy Yard for wikt:overhaul, overhaul and repairs before being placed in reduced commission at Philadelphia. There, she was converted to a light minelayer and, on 17 July 1920, she was redesignated DM-1.
In September 1921, she departed Philadelphia and teamed to the United States West Coast and, from there, proceeded on to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After a series of maneuvers in the Hawaiian Islands, ''Stribling'' was Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning, decommissioned on 26 June 1922. On 1 December 1936, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, Navy list. The following month, her Hulk (ship), hulk was Towing, towed to San Pedro, California, where she was sunk as a target in January 1937.
References
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External links
NavSource PhotosUSS Stribling in Glenn Mills World War I Photograph Album, Iowa Women's Archives Repository, Iowa Digital Library
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Wickes-class destroyers, Stribling (DD-96)
World War I destroyers of the United States
Maritime incidents in 1937
Ships sunk as targets
Shipwrecks of the California coast
Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts
1918 ships