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DD-40 USS BEALE

CLASS - (Repeat) PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 27' x 9' 5" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 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 Cramp, Philadelphia on May 8 1911.
Launched April 30 1912 and commissioned April 30 1912(???)
Decommissioned October 25 1919.
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-9 on April 28 1924. Returned October 18 1930.
Stricken June 28 1934.
Fate Sold and broken up for scrap in 1934.

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Beale 94kPhoto #: NH 56839, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers, and former Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. Engraved portrait published in Bonsel: "Edward Fitzgerald Beale". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Beale 108kUndated, location unknown.Joe Radigan
Beale 54kUndated, location unknown. Photo by Muller taken from Jane's Fighting Ships 1914.Bill Gonyo
Beale 9kCamouflaged, 1918.USN
Beale 66kPhoto #: NH 103743, USS Beale (Destroyer # 40) underway in French waters in 1918, probably photographed from USS Mercury (ID # 3012). Note Beale's pattern camouflage, and lifeboat and davits in the foreground. Courtesy of James Russell, 1980. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Beale 67kPhoto #: NH 56363, USS Beale (Destroyer # 40) moored to a bouy at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. She is painted in pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Beale 52kCirca 1919, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Beale 49kOn Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.Mike Green

USS BEALE DD-40 History
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