USS Bainbridge DD-1

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Builder:
Neafie & Levy Ship and
Engine Building Co.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hull Number:
Destroyer #1
DD-1 (July 17, 1920)
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
November 24, 1902 (reserve)
February 12, 1903 (full)
Keel Laid:
August 15, 1899
Decommissioned:
July 3, 1919
Launched:
August 27, 1901
Stricken:
September 15, 1919
Fate:
Sold Jan. 3, 1920 and scrapped.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
250'
Engines:
2 x Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion
Beam:
23' 7"
Boilers:
4 x Thornycroft (coal fired)
Draft:
9' 3"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
420 std. / 592 full
SHP:
8,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:

75
(91 wartime)

Range:
N/A


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
2
3"/50 (76mm)
Single mounts
14,600 yards @ 43° (8.2 miles)
AA ceiling 30,400'
13 lb. HE shell

5
2.2" (57mm)
6 pounder
Single mounts
8,700 yards @ 45° (4.9 miles)
10,000 AA ceiling
6.3 lb. HE shell
2
18" Torpedo tubes
Single mounts


Notes
Named in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge USN (1774-1833).
Christened by Mrs. Bertram Greene.


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 6, 2007