USS Whipple (DD-15)

USS Whipple (DD-15) at anchor during the early 1900s.
History
United States
NameWhipple
NamesakeCommodore Abraham Whipple
BuilderMaryland Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland
Laid down13 November 1899
Launched15 August 1901
Sponsored byMiss Elsie Pope
Commissioned17 February 1903
Decommissioned5 September 1905
Recommissioned16 July 1906
Decommissioned7 July 1919
Stricken15 September 1919
IdentificationHull symbol: DD-15
Fate
  • Sold for merchant service, 3 January 1920
  • Scrapped 1956
General characteristics
Class & typeTruxtun-class destroyer
Displacement433 long tons (440 t) normal, 605 long tons (615 t) full load
Length259 ft 6 in (79.10 m)
Beam23 ft 3 in (7.09 m)
Draft9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 × boilers, 2 × Vertical expansion engines, 8,300 ihp (6,200 kW)
  • 2 × screws
Speed29.6 kn (34.1 mph; 54.8 km/h)
Complement
  • 3 Officers
  • 75 Enlisted
Armament

The first USS Whipple (DD-15) was a Truxtun-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Abraham Whipple.

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