USS Robinson (DD-88) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 1920.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Robinson |
Namesake | Isaiah Robinson |
Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 31 October 1917 |
Launched | 28 March 1918 |
Commissioned | 19 October 1918 |
Decommissioned | 3 August 1922 |
Recommissioned | 23 August 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-88 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 5 December 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Newmarket |
Commissioned | 5 December 1940 |
Decommissioned | 1944 |
Fate | Scrapped September 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,220 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 140 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Robinson (DD-88) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, later transferred to the Royal Navy, as HMS Newmarket (G47). She was the first ship named for Isaiah Robinson.
She was laid down 31 October 1917 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, launched 28 March 1918, sponsored by Miss Evelyn Tingey Selfridge, and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 19 October 1918.