USS Stockton (DD-73)

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USS Stockton (DD-73) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 56°03′N 0°45′W / 56.050°N 0.750°W

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History
USS Stockton
United States
Name	USS Stockton
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	437
Laid down	16 October 1916
Launched	17 July 1917
Commissioned	26 November 1917
Decommissioned	26 June 1922
Recommissioned	16 August 1940
Decommissioned	23 October 1940
Stricken	8 January 1941
Identification	DD-73
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ludlow
Acquired	23 October 1940
Decommissioned	June 1945
Fate	Beached 15 July 1945 Destroyed as target
General characteristics
Class and type	Caldwell-class destroyer
Displacement	1,020 tons (standard) 1,125 tons (normal)
Length	315 ft 6 in (96.16 m)
Beam	31 ft 4 in (9.55 m)
Draft	8 ft 1 in (2.46 m)
Propulsion	White-Forster boilers Parsons turbines three shafts 18,500 hp (13,800 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	128 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm) 21-pdr guns 1 × 6 in (152 mm) Y-gun 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Stockton (DD-73), a Caldwell-class destroyer, in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1922 — seeing service in World War I — and briefly during 1940. She later served in the Royal Navy as HMS Ludlow during World War II. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named for Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866).

Construction and commissioning

Stockton was laid down on 16 October 1916 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and launched on 17 July 1917, sponsored by Ellen Emelie De Martelly. She was commissioned on 26 November 1917.

Service history

United States Navy

Stockton spent the last year of World War I assigned to convoy escort and antisubmarine warfare duty, operating from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. During that time, she engaged an Imperial German Navy U-boat on at least one occasion. On 30 March 1918, she and the destroyer Ericsson were escorting the troopship St. Paul on the Queenstown-Liverpool circuit, when Ericsson opened fire on a German submarine. The submerged submarine launched a torpedo at Stockton almost immediately thereafter, and the destroyer narrowly evaded it. The two destroyers dropped patterns of depth charges, but the U-boat managed to evade their attack and escaped. Later that night, Stockton collided with the ferry Slieve Bloom near South Stack Light. Slieve Bloom sank on 31 March 1918 with the loss of one life,^[1] and Stockton had to put into Liverpool for repairs.

Stockton returned to the United States in 1919, and continued to serve with the fleet for the next three years. On 26 June 1922, she was decommissioned and laid up at Philadelphia.

Stockton was recommissioned on 16 August 1940 and proceeded to Halifax, Nova Scotia, canada, where she was decommissioned on 23 August 1940 and turned over to the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

Stocktonʼs name was struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register on 8 January 1941.

Royal Navy

The destroyer served the Royal Navy as HMS Ludlow (G57) during World War II until decommissioning in June 1945. Following decommissioning, Ludlow was beached in the Firth of Forth off Yellowcraigs beach, Fidra, Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland, on 15 July 1945 for use as a rocket target by Royal Air Force aircraft. It is reputed that the first salvo of rockets hit her just below the waterline and sank her. Her wreck lies off Yellowcraigs beach in 6 metres (20 ft) of water^[2] and, although well broken up, her remains are still visible just above the surface at low tide.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

^ "The loss of the Slieve Bloom". The Times. No. 41753. London. 2 April 1918. col A, p. 3.
^ Ord Survey NT 522 861

v t e Caldwell-class destroyers
United States Navy	Caldwell Craven / Conway Gwin Conner Stockton Manley
Royal Navy Part of Town class	Leeds (ex-Conner) Lewes (ex-Conway) Ludlow (ex-Stockton)
Preceded by: Sampson class Followed by: Wickes class
List of destroyers of the United States Navy

Town-class destroyers

Royal Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

Other operators
Royal Netherlands Navy	Campbeltown
Royal Norwegian Navy	Bath Lincoln Mansfield Newport St Albans
Soviet Navy	Deyatelny (ex-Churchill) Doblestny (ex-Roxborough) Dostoyny (ex-St Albans) Druzhny (ex-Lincoln) Derzkiy (ex-Chelsea) Zharkiy (ex-Brighton) Zhguchiy (ex-Leamington) Zhivuchiy (ex-Richmond) Zhyostky (ex-Georgetown)

Preceded by: W class
Followed by: HMS Ambuscade

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1918
Shipwrecks	1 Mar: HMS Calgarian 2 Mar: HMS H5 9 Mar: Hindenburg 10 Mar: SM UB-58 12 Mar: HMS D3 13 Mar: Wegadesk 15 Mar: Amazon, SM U-110, SM UB-106 19 Mar: Linz 23 Mar: HMS Arno 24 Mar: Partenope 25 Mar: Tokitsukaze 26 Mar: RFA Lady Cory-Wright, SM U-61 27 Mar: HMS Kale 28 Mar: Inkosi 31 Mar: Slieve Bloom Unknown date: Alose, USS Cyclops, SM UB-17, SM UB-54
Other incidents	20 Mar: HMT Boorara 26 Mar: Watt, USS Wenonah 31 Mar: Celtic, USS Stockton
1917 1918 1919 February 1918 April 1918

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1945
Shipwrecks	2 Jul: Empire Fal 3 Jul: Hoei Maru 4 Jul: Bahia 8 Jul: HNLMS O 19 10 Jul: Sakura Maru 11 Jul: Sakura 14 Jul: Hakuhō Maru, Tachibana 15 Jul: Francis Preston Blair, I-351, HMS Ludlow, HMS Maori, Walter L M Russ 16 Jul: USS Gamble, I-13, Nankai 17 Jul: HMS Athlete, John H. Hammond 18 Jul: Decommissioned Destroyer No. 18, I-372, Kasuga, Yakaze 20 Jul: Kiyokawa Maru 23 Jul: Cha-117 24 Jul: Aoba, Amagi, Hyūga, Iwate, Settsu, HMS Squirrel, Tone, USS Underhill 25 Jul: Kotobuki Maru, PB-2 26 Jul: HMS Vestal 28 Jul: USS Callaghan, Haruna, Ise, Izumo, Ōyodo 30 Jul: Hatsushimo, USS Indianapolis, Okinawa Unknown date: HMCS St. Francis
Other incidents	18 Jul: USS Gabilan, USS Hank, USS Wallace L. Lind 24 Jul: USS Colahan, USS Toro 25 Jul: SS Howard M. Hanna Jr. 26 Jul: USS Marlin
1944 1945 1946 June 1945 August 1945

56°03′N 0°45′W / 56.050°N 0.750°W / 56.050; -0.750

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