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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Craven''''' was one of 6 destroyers of the [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|Caldwell class]].
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Craven''''' was one of six [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|''Caldwell'' class destroyers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].


==Service==
==Service==
''Craven'' was commissioned on 19 October, 1918 with Lieutenant Commander [[Millington Barnett McComb|Millington B. McComb]] in command.  Too late to play an active part in the war, she participated in training exercises on the eastern seaboard and in the Carribbean and then gun tests and weather duties near Newfoundland.  By late 1919, she was placed in reserve. 
In World War II, she would be part of the lend-lease of destroyers to the [[Royal Navy]], joining their service as H.M.S. ''Lewes''.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Schamyl Cochran|nick=Schamyl Cochran|appt=27 May, 1920{{USOfficerReg1922|pp. 30-31}}}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 02:04, 11 July 2017

U.S.S. Craven (1918)
Hull Number: DD-70
Builder: Norfolk[1]
Laid down: 20 Nov, 1917[2]
Launched: 29 Jun, 1918[3]
Commissioned: 19 Oct, 1918[4]
Decommissioned: 15 Jun, 1922[5]
Scuttled: May, 1946[6]
Fate: as H.M.S. Lewes

U.S.S. Craven was one of six Caldwell class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Craven was commissioned on 19 October, 1918 with Lieutenant Commander Millington B. McComb in command. Too late to play an active part in the war, she participated in training exercises on the eastern seaboard and in the Carribbean and then gun tests and weather duties near Newfoundland. By late 1919, she was placed in reserve.

In World War II, she would be part of the lend-lease of destroyers to the Royal Navy, joining their service as H.M.S. Lewes.

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. ↑ Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 30-31.

Bibliography


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


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