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==Service==
==Service==
''Sproston'' was commissioned on 12 July, 1919.  She proceeded to Hawaii and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet in the fall of 1919.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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Latest revision as of 15:17, 24 January 2017

U.S.S. Sproston (1918)
Hull Number: DD-173
Builder: Union Iron Works[1]
Laid down: 20 Apr, 1918[2]
Launched: 10 Aug, 1918[3]
Commissioned: 11 Jul, 1919[4]
Decommissioned: 15 Aug, 1922[5]
Stricken: 1 Dec, 1936[6]
Expended: 20 Jul, 1937[7]
Fate: as target

U.S.S. Sproston was one of one hundred and eleven Wickes class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Sproston was commissioned on 12 July, 1919. She proceeded to Hawaii and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet in the fall of 1919.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  2. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  4. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 433.
  8. ↑ "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 1 January, 1921. Vol. LXIX, No. 2,111, p. 16.
  9. ↑ Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 24-25.

Bibliography


Wickes Class Destroyer
Wickes Philip Woolsey Evans Little
Kimberly Sigourney Gregory Stringham Dyer
Colhoun Stevens McKee Robinson Ringgold
McKean Harding Gridley Fairfax Taylor
Bell Stribling Murray Israel Luce
Maury Lansdale Mahan Schley Champlin
Mugford Chew Hazelwood Williams Crane
Hart Ingraham Ludlow Rathburne Talbot
Waters Dent Dorsey Lea Lamberton
Radford Montgomery Breese Gamble Ramsay
Tattnall Badger Twiggs Babbitt De Long
Jacob Jones Buchanan Aaron Ward Hale Crowninshield
Tillman Boggs Kilty Kennison Ward
Claxton Hamilton Tarbell Yarnall Upshur
Greer Elliot Roper Breckinridge Barney
Blakely Biddle Du Pont Bernadou Ellis
Cole J. Fred Talbott Dickerson Leary Schenck
Herbert Palmer Thatcher Walker Crosby
Meredith Bush Cowell Maddox Foote
Kalk Burns Anthony Sproston Rizal
Mackenzie Renshaw O'Bannon Hogan Howard
  Stansbury Hopewell Thomas  
  Haraden Abbot Bagley  
<– Caldwell Class Destroyers (US) Clemson Class –>


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