History | |
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United States | |
Name | Sigourney |
Namesake | James Butler Sigourney |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 25 August 1917 |
Launched | 16 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1918 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 23 August 1940 |
Decommissioned | 26 November 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom 26 November 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Newport |
Acquired | 26 November 1940 (from U.S. Navy) |
Commissioned | 5 December 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: G54 |
Fate | Transferred to Norway March 1941 |
Acquired | June 1942 (from Norway) |
Decommissioned | January 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped 18 February 1947 |
Norway | |
Name | HNoMS Newport |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | March 1941 (from Royal Navy) |
Identification | Pennant number: G54 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom June 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,191 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 4+1⁄4 in (9.252 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
USS Sigourney (DD–81) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named for James Butler Sigourney.