USS Crowninshield
USS Crowninshield | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Crowninshield |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 5 November 1918 |
| Launched | 24 July 1919 |
| Commissioned | 6 August 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 7 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 12 May 1930 |
| Decommissioned | 8 April 1937 |
| Recommissioned | 30 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 9 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Fate | Transferred to UK, 9 September 1940 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Chelsea |
| Commissioned | 9 September 1940 |
| Identification | I35 |
| Fate | Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944 |
| Notes | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy November 1942; returned by Canada 26 December 1943 |
| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Chelsea |
| Acquired | November 1942 |
| Fate | Returned to United Kingdom, 26 December 1943 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Derzky (Дерзкий / Insolent) |
| Acquired | 16 July 1944 |
| Fate | Returned to UK for scrapping, 23 June 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,090 tons |
| Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) |
| Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | |
USS Crowninshield (DD-134) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy between World War I and World War II. She was named for Benjamin Williams Crowninshield. In World War II she was transferred to the Royal Navy where she was named HMS Chelsea, and subsequently to the Soviet Navy where she was named Derzky.