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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Porter''''' was one of 6 destroyers of the [[Tucker Class Destroyer (1915)|Tucker class]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Porter''''' was one of six [[Tucker Class Destroyer (1915)|''Tucker'' class destroyers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
 
==Service==
 
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''Porter'' was laid down by [[William Cramp & Sons]] of Philadelphia in August 1914 and launched in August of the following year.
  
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=James Thomas Alexander|nick=James T. Alexander|appt=1918<ref>''Girard Press'' (Girard, KS) 18 Jul, 1918 p.1.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Harold Vincent McKittrick|nick=Harold V. McKittrick|appt=21 December, 1921{{USOfficerReg1922|pp. 28-29}}}}
 
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==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 01:11, 31 January 2022

U.S.S. Porter (1915)
Hull Number: DD-59
Builder: William Cramp & Sons[1]
Laid down: 24 Feb, 1914[2]
Launched: 26 Jul, 1915[3]
Commissioned: 17 Apr, 1916[4]
Decommissioned: 23 Jun, 1922[5]
Stricken: 7 Jan, 1936[6]
Sold:

U.S.S. Porter was one of six Tucker class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Porter was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in August 1914 and launched in August of the following year.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  7. Girard Press (Girard, KS) 18 Jul, 1918 p.1.
  8. Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 28-29.

Bibliography


Tucker Class Destroyer
  Tucker Conyngham Porter  
  Wadsworth Jacob Jones Wainwright  
<– O'Brien Class Destroyers (US) Sampson Class –>