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USS ROE (DD-24)

CLASS - PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 26' 11" x 10' 11" (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 Newport News Shipbuilding on January 18 1909.
Launched July 24 1909 and commissioned September 17 1910.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia on December 1 1919.
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-18 June 7 1924. Returned October 18 1930.
Stricken June 28 1934.
Fate Under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, Roe was sold and broken up for scrap in 1934.

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Roe 57kFrancis Asbury Roe, born in Elmira, N.Y., 4 October 1823, graduated from the Naval School, Annapolis, in 1848. Six years later, while serving in Porpoise on the Asiatic Station, he participated in an engagement with 13 Chinese armored junks off Macao. Six of the junks were sunk and the others were scattered. During the Civil War, in April 1862, he was recommended for promotion for gallantry for his actions onboard Pensacola as that ship led Admiral Farragut's starboard column past Forts Jackson and St. Philip. After commanding Katahdin on the Mississippi, he was ordered to command Sassacus in September 1863. Eight months later he was again commended for gallantry for engaging the Confederate ram Albemarle and the gunboat Bombshell in the sounds of North Carolina. After the end of the war he commanded the Mexican Division of the Gulf Squadron; served as fleet captain for both the Asiatic Station from 1868 to 1871 and the Brazil Station from 1874 to 1875. Promoted to Rear Admiral 3 November 1884, while serving as Governor of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, he was transferred to the retired list 4 October 1885. He died in Washington, D.C., 28 December 1901. Photo #: NH 371, Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe, USN (Retired) in full dress uniform, with sword and medals. This photograph was probably taken on or about 4 October 1893. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe, USN. Donated by Miss Mary E. Mason, 1929. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart/Robert M. Cieri
Roe 100kPhoto #: NH 103520, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) ready for launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 24 July 1909. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 110kPhoto #: NH 103519, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) sliding down the ways during her launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 24 July 1909. The original print is a halftone reproduction. Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 60kPhoto #: NH 76511, First airplane takeoff from a warship, Eugene B. Ely takes his Curtiss pusher airplane off from the deck of USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 50kPhoto #: NH 43764, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) in port, circa 1910-1915. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 168kUSS Roe underway sometime between 1910 to 1915. Image taken by the Bain News Service. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.Bill Gonyo.
Roe 56kPhoto #: NH 100400, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) laying a smoke screen, prior to World War I. Photographed by Waterman. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 69kPhoto #: NH 64986, USS Roe (Destroyer # 24) on patrol in 1918. She is painted in "dazzle" camouflage. Collection of Peter K. Connelly. Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Roe 90kContributor Jim Pacetti's Dad on the deck of the Roe in 1918.Jim Pacetti
Roe 134kUSS Roe (Destroyer # 24), at right, taking on oil from USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30), at sea off the coast of Brest, France, 1 June 1918. Note Warrington's pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Paul Rebold
Roe 46kCirca 1919, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Roe 116kUSCG Monaghan (CG-15, ex-USS DD-32), USCG Roe (CG-18, ex-DD-24), USCG McDougal (CG-6, ex-DD-54) and USCG Ammen (ex-DD-35) at New York Navy Yard, 20 October 1926.Robert Hurst

USS ROE DD-24 History
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Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

LCDR Clark Howell Woodward    Sep 17 1910 - 1913
LTJG Guy Carlton Barnes    ? 1914 - ?
CDR Howard Hartwell James Benson    ? 1917 - Nov 1918 (Later COMO)

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