USS Charles Ausburn (DD-294)

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Launched: 18 December 1919
Commissioned: 23 March 1920
Decommissioned: 1 May 1930
Fate: sold for scrapping, 17 January 1931
Struck: 22 October 1930
General

Characteristics

Displacement: 1,215 tons
Length: 314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m)
Beam: 31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m)
Draught: 9 feet 10 inches (3 m)
Propulsion: geared turbines
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 122 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 x 4" (102 mm), 1 x 3" (76 mm), 12 x 21" (533 mm) tt.

The first USS Charles Ausburn (DD-294) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Charles Lawrence Ausburne.

Charles Ausburn was launched 18 December 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. D. K. Ausburn; and commissioned 23 March 1920, Lieutenant M. W. Hutchinson, Jr., in command.

Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, Charles Ausburn operated from Charleston, South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia and Newport, Rhode Island along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean 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 Army aircraft, maintaining stations off Greenland and Newfoundland. On 18 June 1925, she sailed from Boston for a year of duty off Europe and in the Mediterranean, 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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There she was sold 17 January 1931.

See USS Charles Ausburn for other ships of this name.

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.


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