USS Jenkins (DD-42) moored in a European port, possibly Queenstown, Ireland, circa 1918. She is painted in dazzle camouflage.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Jenkins |
Namesake | Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Cost | $650,712.43[1] |
Laid down | 24 March 1911 |
Launched | 29 April 1912 |
Sponsored by | Miss Alice Jenkins |
Commissioned | 15 June 1912 |
Decommissioned | 31 October 1919 |
Stricken | 8 March 1935 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold for scrap in 1935 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Paulding-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean)[3] |
Installed power | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | |
Complement | 4 officers 87 enlisted[4] |
Armament |
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The first USS Jenkins (DD-42) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins.