USS Herndon (DD-198)
HMS Churchill, underway, leaving a US Navy yard. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Herndon |
| Namesake | William Lewis Herndon |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down | 25 November 1918 |
| Launched | 31 May 1919 |
| Commissioned | 14 September 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 6 June 1922 |
| Fate | Transferred to USCG, 1930 |
| United States | |
| Acquired | 13 September 1930 |
| Commissioned | 7 March 1931 |
| Decommissioned | 28 May 1934 |
| Fate | Returned to Navy, 1934 |
| United States | |
| Acquired | 1934 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 9 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Fate | Transferred to UK, 9 September 1940 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Churchill |
| Acquired | 9 September 1940 |
| Commissioned | 9 September 1940 |
| Identification | Pennant number: I45 |
| Fate | Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | Deyatelny (Деятельный) |
| Acquired | 16 July 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk in action, 16 January 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,190 long tons (1,209 t) |
| Length | 314 ft (96 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
| Installed power | 26,500 shp (19,800 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35 kn (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
| Range | 4,900 nmi (5,600 mi; 9,100 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament |
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USS Herndon (DD-198) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Herndon served in the United States Coast Guard as CG-17. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Churchill and still later to the Soviet Navy as Deyatelny.