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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Kalk |
| Namesake | Stanton Frederick Kalk |
| Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down | 17 August 1918 as Rodgers |
| Launched | 21 December 1918 |
| Renamed | Kalk, 23 December 1918 |
| Commissioned | 29 March 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 10 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 17 June 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 23 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification | DD-170 |
| Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Hamilton |
| Commissioned | 23 September 1940 |
| Identification | Pennant number: I24 |
| Fate | Transferred to Canada June 1941 |
| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Hamilton |
| Commissioned | June 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 8 June 1945 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic, 1942-43. |
| Fate | Towed away for scrapping 6 July 1945 |
| Notes | Became tender 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,060 tons |
| Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
| Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Kalk (DD–170) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Hamilton (I24) and then into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Hamilton (I24).