USS Craven (DD-70)

USS Craven (DD-70) underway in November 1918
History
United States
Name	Craven
Namesake	Commander Tunis Craven
Builder	Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Laid down	20 November 1917
Launched	29 June 1918
Commissioned	19 October 1918
Decommissioned	15 June 1922
Renamed	Conway, 12 November 1939
Namesake	Quartermaster William Conway
Recommissioned	9 August 1940
Decommissioned	23 October 1940
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name	Lewes
Acquired	23 October 1940
Commissioned	23 October 1940
Decommissioned	1945
Fate	Scuttled 25 May 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Caldwell-class destroyer
Displacement	1,020 tons (standard), 1,125 tons (normal)
Length	308 ft (94 m) waterline 315 ft 6 in (96.16 m) overall
Beam	31 ft 3 in (9.53 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m) 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) max
Installed power	20,000 shp (15,000 kW)
Propulsion	Thornycroft boilers, Parsons geared turbines, two shafts
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	146
Armament	4 x 4 in (102 mm)/50 cal. guns 1 x 1.1 in (28 mm) AA later 1 x 3 in (76 mm) gun 2 x triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Craven (DD-70), later renamed USS Conway (DD-70), a Caldwell-class destroyer, was in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1922 and briefly in 1940, and later in the Royal Navy as HMS Lewes from 1940 to 1945.