USS O'Brien (DD-51)
USS O'Brien, during trials in 1915. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | O'Brien |
| Namesake | Captain Jeremiah O'Brien of the Massachusetts Naval Militia and his five brothers. |
| Ordered | March 1913 |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Cost | $863,984.51 (hull and machinery) |
| Yard number | 404 |
| Laid down | 8 September 1913 |
| Launched | 20 July 1914 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Marcia Bradbury Campbell |
| Commissioned | 22 May 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 5 June 1922 |
| Stricken | 8 March 1935 |
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| Fate | Sold on 23 April 1935 and scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | O'Brien-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 305 ft 3 in (93.04 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 1 in (9.47 m) |
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| Complement | 5 officers 96 enlisted |
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USS O'Brien (Destroyer No. 51/DD-51) was the lead ship of O'Brien-class destroyers built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the second US Navy vessel named in honor of Jeremiah O'Brien and his five brothers Gideon, John, William, Dennis, and Joseph who, together on the sloop Unity, captured a British warship during the American Revolutionary War.
O'Brien was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in September 1913 and launched in July 1914.
After her May 1915 commissioning, O'Brien sailed off the east coast and in the Caribbean. She was one of seventeen destroyers sent out to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket in October 1916. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, O'Brien was sent overseas to patrol the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland.
After returning to the United States in January 1919, O'Brien revisited European waters in May to serve as one of the picket ships for the NC-type seaplanes in the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic. O'Brien was decommissioned at Philadelphia in June 1922. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in March 1935 and sold for scrapping in April.