USS Beale (DD-40)

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USS Beale (DD-40) moored to a bouy at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918.jpg
USS Beale (DD-40) moored to a buoy at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. She is painted in pattern camouflage.
History
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameBeale
Namesake Lieutenant (navy) Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Builder William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$669,168.12 (hull and machinery) [1]
Yard number379
Laid down8 May 1911
Launched30 April 1912
Sponsored byMrs. Emily Beale McLean, the daughter of Lt. Beale
Commissioned30 September 1912 [1]
Decommissioned25 October 1919
Stricken28 June 1934
Identification
Fate
NotesPatterson lost her name to new construction on 5 July 1934
Flag of the United States Coast Guard.svgUnited States
NameBeale
Acquired28 April 1924 [2]
Commissioned26 October 1924 [2]
Decommissioned1 June 1930 [2]
Identification Hull symbol:CG-9
FateReturned to the Navy
General characteristics [3]
Class and type Paulding-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 742 long tons (754  t) normal
  • 887 long tons (901 t) full load
Length293 ft 10 in (89.56 m)
Beam27 ft (8.2 m)
Draft8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean) [4]
Installed power12,000 ihp (8,900 kW)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h)
  • 29.65 kn (34.12 mph; 54.91 km/h) (Speed on Trial) [4]
Complement4 officers 87 enlisted [5]
Armament

USS Beale (DD-40), a Paulding-class destroyer served in the United States Navy during World War I and later with the United States Coast Guard. She was the first ship of the Navy to be named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale.

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Beale was launched on 30 April 1912 and was commissioned on 30 August 1912. She served in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea until 1915 and with the Atlantic Fleet from 1916 until being decommissioned in 1919. She was transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1924. From 1924 to 1930 she operated to prevent rum-runners from illegally bringing alcoholic beverages into the United States. Beale was scrapped in 1934.

World War I

Beale at Key West, Florida. USS Beale (DD-40) at Key West.jpg
Beale at Key West, Florida.

Beale was launched on 30 April 1912 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia. She was sponsored by Mrs. John R. McLean, daughter of Lieutenant Beale. She was commissioned on 30 August 1912.

Beale joined the 5th Group, Torpedo Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet, and cruised along the Atlantic coast and in Mexican and Caribbean waters until placed in reserve on 13 December 1915. She was reactivated with a reduced crew on 5 January 1916 and served on Neutrality Patrol along the Atlantic coast until placed in full commission on 22 March 1917. She joined the Atlantic Destroyer Force and arrived at Queenstown, Ireland on 5 February 1918.

Beale operated out of Queenstown on convoy and patrol duty until the end of World War I. She returned to the United States in December 1918 and served with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 October 1919.

Inter-war period

Beale was reactivated in 1924 and transferred to the Coast Guard on 28 April 1924 for use in enforcing the Volstead Act, which prohibited the sale or import of alcoholic beverages in the United States. In Coast Guard service she was assigned hull number CG-9. She was returned to the Navy on 18 October 1930 and was laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard until she was scrapped in 1934. [2]

Notes

Citations
  1. 1 2 "Table 21 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Record of Movements Vessels of the United States Coast Guard 1790 -December 31, 1933 (PDF). Washington: TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 1989. p. 63.
  3. ↑ "USS Beale (DD-40)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Table 10 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 714. 1921.
  5. ↑ "Table 16 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 749. 1921.
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