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DD-23 USS DRAYTON

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 August 19 1909.
Launched August 22 1910 and commissioned October 29 1910.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia November 1919.
Drayton lost her name to new construction on July 1 1933.
Stricken March 8 1935.
Fate Sold June 28 1935 and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
97k	Photo #: NH 50435. Captain Percival Drayton, USN portrait photograph, taken circa 1864-1865. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
63k	Undated, location unknown.	David Buell
42k	Undated, location unknown. Photo by Muller in Jane's Fighting Ships 1914.	Robert Hurst
77k	The launching August 22 1910 at Bath, ME.	Richard Leonhardt
104k	Photo #: NH 54567 USS Drayton running builder's trials in 1910, prior to installation of her armament. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
79k	Photo #: NH 99398 Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of Drayton making 28.92 knots during builder's trials, 1910. 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
70k	Photo #: NH 99255, USS Drayton (Destroyer # 23) underway in 1912. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Paul Rebold
67k	Photo #: NH 564 USS Drayton photographed prior to World War I, probably in New York Harbor. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
64k	Photo #: NH 103932, USS Drayton (Destroyer # 23) damage to the ship's bow, after a collision with USS Aylwin (Destroyer # 47), circa 1916-1917 or 1919. The original image was printed on postal card stock. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Paul Rebold
10k	Starboard side, camouflaged, Queenstown, Ireland, 1918. Note the unusual camouflage pattern.	USN
89k	Photo #: NH 99404 USS Drayton underway in western French waters, seen from on board another ship, 1918. Note Drayton's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
72k	Photo #: NH 99400 USS Drayton at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 11 February 1919. Photographed by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, # 11 Portland Street, Boston. Note Drayton's damaged stem, and the masts of USS Constitution in the left background. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Crosby Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
72k	R-26 (SS-103) getting ready to submerge at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, September 22, 1923. Among the decommissioned ships nested to the left is the destroyer Drayton (DD-23). Cropped version of US Navy photo # 19-N-10578.	Daniel Dunham

USS DRAYTON DD-23 History
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