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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Gwin''''' was one of six destroyers of the [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|''Caldwell'' class]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Gwin''''' was the last of six [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|''Caldwell'' class destroyers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]], joining the fleet too late to participate in the war.
  
 
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''Gwin'' was commissioned at Puget Sound on 18 March, 1920 under the command of Lieutenant Commander [[Herbert Horatio Bouson|Herbert H. Bouson]].  Her career was not much to speak of &ndash; she traversed the Panama Canal to arrive on the east coast in June.  Two years later, she was to be decommissioned, never to serve again.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:41, 9 December 2014

U.S.S. Gwin (1917)
Hull Number: DD-71
Builder: Seattle-Tacoma[1]
Laid down: 21 Jun, 1917[2]
Launched: 22 Dec, 1917[3]
Commissioned: 18 Mar, 1920[4]
Decommissioned: 28 Jun, 1922[5]
Stricken: 25 Jan, 1937[6]
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U.S.S. Gwin was the last of six Caldwell class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy, joining the fleet too late to participate in the war.

Service

Gwin was commissioned at Puget Sound on 18 March, 1920 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Herbert H. Bouson. Her career was not much to speak of – she traversed the Panama Canal to arrive on the east coast in June. Two years later, she was to be decommissioned, never to serve again.

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.

Bibliography


Caldwell Class Destroyer
  Caldwell Craven Gwin  
  Conner Stockton Manley  
<– Sampson Class Destroyers (US) Wickes Class –>
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