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DD-16 USS WORDEN

CLASS - TRUXTUN As Built.
Displacement 433 Tons, Dimensions, 259' 6" (oa) x 23' 3" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 2 x 3"/50, 6 x 6pdr, 2 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 8,300 IHP; 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 29 Knots, Crew 72.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Maryland Steel, Sparrows Pt. Md. on November 13 1899.
Launched August 15 1901 and commissioned December 31 1902.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia July 13 1919.
Stricken September 15 1919.
Fate Sold January 3 1920 into the merchant service as banana carrier.
Standing by a damaged freighter (probably M.S. La Paz) off the east coast of Florida (80 10'W; 28 10') on 1 May 1942
Worden was sunk by the German Submarine U-109.

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Worden 85kPhoto #: NH 101, Rear Admiral John L. Worden, USN photographed in full dress uniform by F.M. Zuller, Richfield Springs, New York, and the U.S. Naval Academy, April 1873.Tony Cowart
Worden 208kThe turtle-back design, of the early destroyers and torpedo boats, is easily seen here in this undated photo. Armed with two 3" guns, one shown here atop her forecastle, she also carried two six pounders forward, shown here peering through the open forecastle ports.USN
Worden 20kUndated post card painting of the Worden.Joe Radigan
Worden 104kPhoto #: NH 91222, USS Worden (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 16) underway during the North Atlantic Fleet review, 1905. Photographed by the Burr McIntosh Studio. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Rodgers Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Worden 46kPhoto #: NH 43761-A, USS Worden (Torpedo Boat Destroyer # 16) at anchor, possibly in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area in 1907. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Worden 81kPhoto #: NH 101529, Hudson-Fulton celebration, New York City, crowd observes warships anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, during the festivities, circa 25 September -- 9 October 1909. The four-funneled destroyer in the left foreground is USS Worden (Destroyer # 16), accompanied by several torpedo boats. The British armored cruisers beyond are HMS Argyll (at left) and HMS Duke of Edinburgh (right center). Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Worden 168kPhiladelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, Old destroyers in the Reserve Basin, 13 June 1919, while awaiting decommissioning. Note the truck and liferafts on the pier. These ships are (from left to right): USS Worden (Destroyer # 16); USS Barry (Destroyer # 2); USS Hull (Destroyer # 7); USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6) -- probably; USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1); USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13); USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10); and USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5). Ships further to the right can not be identified. Courtesy of Frank Jankowski, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Worden 81kPhoto #: NH 43036, Philadelphia Navy Yard, destroyers awaiting decommissioning in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, during the Spring of 1919. Photographed by La Tour.dShips present are (from left to right): USS Isabel; four unidentified "750-ton" type destroyers; USS Preble (Destroyer # 12); USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5); USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10); USS Stewart (Destroyer # 13); USS Bainbridge (Destroyer # 1); USS Hopkins (Destroyer # 6); USS Hull (Destroyer # 7); USS Barry (Destroyer # 2); USS Worden (Destroyer # 16); USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14); USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15); USS Perry (Destroyer # 11); USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8); and USS Dale (Destroyer # 4). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Worden 113kPhoto #: NH 52105, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania destroyers awaiting decommissioning, in the Yard's Reserve Basin, 4 March 1919. Ships present include (from left to right): USS Lawrence (Destroyer # 8); USS Perry (Destroyer # 11); USS Whipple (Destroyer # 15); USS Truxtun (Destroyer # 14); and USS Worden (Destroyer # 16). Note Lawrence's after torpedo tube (with torpedo visible) and pattern camouflage; 48-star flags, radio masts and signal flags on several of these destroyers; and small craft moored to the ships' sterns. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
On Nicaraguan Service
Worden 109kPhoto #: 80-G-177164 (cropped), Worden, which has the Nicaraguan flag painted on her side, was the former USS Worden (Destroyer # 16), which was sold by the U.S. Navy in January 1920. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Tony Cowart

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