USS McCook
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS McCook |
Namesake | Roderick S. McCook |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy |
Laid down | 10 September 1918 |
Launched | 31 January 1919 |
Commissioned | 30 April 1919 |
Decommissioned | 24 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-252 |
Fate | Transferred to the United Kingdom then Canada, 24 September 1940 |
Canada | |
Name | HMCS St. Croix |
Namesake | St. Croix River |
Acquired | 24 September 1940 |
Identification | I81 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1940-43 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-305, 20 September 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,190 tons (1,209 t) |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 120 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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The first USS McCook (DD-252) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Entering service in 1919, the ship had a brief active life before being placed in the reserve fleet. Reactivated for World War II, the ship was transferred to the Royal Navy and then to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS St. Croix. Assigned as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic, St. Croix was torpedoed and sunk on 20 September 1943.