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USS PAULDING (DD-22)

CLASS - PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 27' x 9' 5" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 6 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 3 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath Me. on July 24 1909.
Launched April 12 1910 and commissioned September 29 1910.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia in August 1919.
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-17 April 28 1924, Returned October 18 1930.
Stricken June 28 1934.
Fate Under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, sold and broken up for scrap in 1934.

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Paulding 50kPhoto #: NH 88388, Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding, USN (Retired) photograph taken circa 1864-1866 by J. Gurney & Son, New York City. The original print was mounted on a carte de visite. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Paulding 110kCirca 1914, location unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo # LC-DIG-hec-04923.Tom Kermen
Paulding 175kCirca 1914, location unknown. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo # LC-DIG-hec-04924.Tom Kermen
Paulding 130kChecking the Anti-Aircraft battery at Boston Navy Yard on May 21, 1917. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo # LC-DIG-npcc-32890.Tom Kermen
Paulding 194kPort side, camouflaged, Queenstown, Ireland, 1918. Image # (111-SC-43599)National Archives
Paulding 79kPhoto #: 111-SC-6872, USS Paulding (Destroyer # 22) standing by near a small boat, in the vicinity of Queenstown, Ireland, 1918. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.Tony Cowart
Paulding 99kNH 42810, USS Paulding (Destroyer # 22) in drydock at Queenstown, Ireland, while receiving repairs to her bow, 1918. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Paulding 98kPhoto #: NH 42811, USS Paulding (Destroyer # 22) drydocked for repairs at Queenstown, Ireland, 1918. Her bow appears to have suffered collision damage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Paulding 33kUndated, on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.Mike Green
Paulding 026kOn Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era with seized rum runner alongside, from the Official Coast Guard Website.Mike Green
Paulding 111kPhoto #: NH 69120, USCGC Paulding (CG-17) on the Marine Railway at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 26 December 1927, showing damage to her bow from her collision with USS S-4 (SS-109) on 17 December 1927. She was originally USS Paulding (DD-22). Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart

USS PAULDING DD-22 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The hazegray Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

LCDR Yates Stirling Jr.    Sep 29 1910 - ? (Later RADM)
LCDR Stafford Henry Rahill Doyle    Aug 16 1911 - Jun 1 1914
LCDR Walter Stanley DeLany    Jun 1919 - Jul 1919 (Later VADM)

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Destroyers Online Website
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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