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DD-31 USS MAYRANT

CLASS - PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 26' 11" x 9' 5" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Cramp, Philadelphia on April 22 1909.
Launched April 23 1910 and commissioned July 12 1911.
Mayrant was decommissioned at Boston on May 20 1915.
Mayrant remained there until being shifted to Philadelphia on November 9 1915
and remained berthed there until she was recommissioned on January 2 1918.
Mayrant was decommissioned at Philadelphia December 12 1919and berthed with
the reserve fleet until she was stricken.
Stricken March 8 1935.
Fate Sold June 28 1935 and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
90k	Photo #: NH 47915. John Mayrant (1762-1836) who, as a Midshipman serving under John Paul Jones in Continental Ship Bonhomme Richard, led the attacking party that captured HMS Serapis on 23 September 1779. Minature portrait, photographed circa 1927, when it was in the possession of the Simons Family of Charleston, South Carolina. Courtesy of Mr. Aiken Simons, of the DuPont Company, 1927. U.S . Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
89k	USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30), left, and USS Mayrant (Destroyer # 31) fitting out at the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 July 1910. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.	Tony Cowart
99k	January 4 1911, location unknown. NARA # 19-N-14902.	Daniel Dunham
59k	Photo #: NH 46438, USS Mayrant (Destroyer # 31) fitting out at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 July 1911. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
64k	Photo #: NH 99740, USS Mayrant (Destroyer # 31) at anchor, 1911. Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by N.L. Stebbins, of Boston, Massachusetts. 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
67k	Photo #: NH 99741-A, USS Mayrant (Destroyer # 31) in a harbor with other Atlantic Fleet ships, 1919. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
88k	USS Mayrant (Destroyer # 31), left, and USS Warrington (Destroyer # 30) fitting out at the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 July 1910. Note the exposed rudder yoke on Mayrant's stern, propeller guards, steering wheels just forward of the after gun mounts, and names afixed to the ships' sterns. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.	Tony Cowart

USS MAYRANT DD-31 History
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