USS Winslow (DD-53)

USS Winslow (DD-53) during trials in 1915.
History
United States
Name	Winslow
Namesake	Rear admiral John Ancrum Winslow
Ordered	March 1913[4]
Builder	William Cramp & Sons[1] Philadelphia
Cost	$856,100.67 (hull and machinery)[2]
Yard number	406[3]
Laid down	1 October 1913[5]
Launched	11 February 1915[1]
Sponsored by	Miss Natalie E. Winslow[1]
Commissioned	7 August 1915[5]
Decommissioned	5 June 1922[1]
Renamed	DD-53, 1 July 1933[5]
Stricken	7 January 1936[5]
Identification	Hull symbol:DD-53 Code letters:NJA
Fate	Sold on 30 June 1936 and scrapped[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	O'Brien-class destroyer
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t)[5] 1,171 long tons (1,190 t) fully loaded[1]
Length	305 ft 3 in (93.04 m)[5]
Beam	31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)[5]
Draft	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) (mean)[6] 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) max[5]
Installed power	4 × White-Forster boilers 17,000 shp (13,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Zoelly direct-drive steam turbines 2 × screw propellers[4]
Speed	29 kn (33 mph; 54 km/h)[1] 29.05 kn (33.43 mph; 53.80 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[6]
Complement	5 officers 96 enlisted[7]
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 caliber guns 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4 × 2)

USS Winslow (Destroyer No. 53/DD-53) was an O'Brien-class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the second US Navy vessel named in honor of John Ancrum Winslow, a US Navy officer notable for sinking the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.

Winslow was laid down by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in October 1913 and launched in February 1915. The ship was a little more than 305 ft (93 m) in length, just over 31 ft (9.4 m) abeam, and had a standard displacement of 1,050 long tons (1,070 t). She was armed with four 4 in (100 mm) guns and had eight 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Winslow was powered by a pair of steam turbines that propelled her at up to 29 kn (33 mph; 54 km/h).

After her August 1915 commissioning, Winslow sailed off the east coast and in the Caribbean. She was one of seventeen destroyers sent out to rescue survivors from five victims of German submarine U-53 off the Lightship Nantucket in October 1916. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Winslow was sent overseas to patrol the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland. Winslow made several unsuccessful attacks on U-boats, and rescued survivors of several ships sunk by the German craft.

Upon returning to the United States after the war, Winslow was placed in reduced commission in December 1919. She was decommissioned at Philadelphia in June 1922. In November she dropped her name to free it for a new destroyer of the same name, becoming known only as DD-53. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1936 and sold for scrapping in June.