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DD-19 USS PRESTON

CLASS - SMITH As Built.
Displacement 700 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 26' 5" x 10' 7" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 10,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 3 screws
Speed, 28 Knots, Crew 89.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York Shipbuilding, Camden. on April 28 1908.
Launched July 14 1909 and commissioned December 24 1909.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia July 7 1919.
Stricken September 15 1919.
Fate Sold November 21 1919 and broken up for scrap.
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Preston 69kPhoto #: NH 47236. Acting Master Samuel W. Preston, USN (1840-1865) photographed circa 1861-1862. The original print was mounted on a Carte de Visite. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Preston 80kUSS Preston (Destroyer # 19) underway in 1912. Photographed by C.E. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Preston 63kPhoto #: NH 99266 Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of Preston running builder's trials, circa late 1909. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912). Donation of David Shadell, 1987. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Preston 56kPhoto #: NH 44198 At anchor soon after completion, circa 1910, with crewmen engaged in aiming practice with her forward gun. Note that Preston still retains her original low smokestacks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Preston 132kUSS Preston (Destroyer # 19) with several other destroyers in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, circa spring 1919. Taken by Keystone Photo Studios, 817 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. Collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
USS PRESTON DD-19 History
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