&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USSHaleDD133.jpg) USS Hale at Venice, Italy in 1919
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Hale |
| Namesake | Eugene Hale |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 7 October 1918 |
| Launched | 29 May 1919 |
| Commissioned | 12 June 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 22 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
| Decommissioned | 9 April 1937 |
| Recommissioned | 30 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 9 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification | DD-133 |
| Fate | Transferred to UK, 9 September 1940 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Caldwell |
| Acquired | 9 September 1940 |
| Identification | Pennant number:I20 |
| Fate | Scrapped, September 1944 |
| Notes | In Royal Canadian Navy service mid-1942 to 1 December 1943 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Caldwell |
| Acquired | mid-1942 |
| Fate | Returned to United Kingdom, 1 December 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 | 113 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Hale (DD–133) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Caldwell (I20). She was named for Senator Eugene Hale.