 USS William B. Preston at Vancouver in June 1933.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Namesake | William B. Preston |
| Builder | Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia |
| Laid down | 18 November 1918 |
| Launched | 9 August 1919 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. William Radford Beale |
| Commissioned | 23 August 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 15 October 1934 |
| Reclassified | Small seaplane tender (AVP-20) 18 November 1939 |
| Recommissioned | 14 June 1940 |
| Reclassified | Destroyer-seaplane tender (AVD-7) 2 August 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 6 December 1945 |
| Stricken | 3 January 1946 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 6 November 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,308 tons |
| Length | 314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m) |
| Beam | 30 feet 11 inches (9.42 m) |
| Draft | 9 feet 10 inches (3.00 m) |
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| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range | |
| Complement | 221 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/25 gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS William B. Preston (DD-344/AVP-20/AVD-7) was a United States Navy Clemson-class destroyer in commission from 1920 to 1934. After conversion into a seaplane tender, she again was in commission from 1939 to 1945, seeing action during World War II. She was named for United States Secretary of the Navy and United States Senator William B. Preston.[1]
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