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USS BEALE (DD-40)

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 194kUndated, location unknown.Darryl Baker
Beale 83kUSS Beale (DD-40) at pierside at Key West, Florida on an unknown date. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1999.277.059Mike Green
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 495kNewspaper clipping from the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger of July 19 1919 showing the USS Patterson (DD-36), USS Burrows (DD-29), USS Ammen (DD-35) and USS Beale (DD-40).Michael Mohl
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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Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

LT Edward Constant Southword Parker    1912 - 1912
LT Charles Talley Blackburn    Aug 30 1912 - May 13 1916
LCDR Walter Newhall Vernou    May 13 1916 - ? (Later RADM)
LT Charles Talley Blackburn    ? 1917 - ?
LCDR Frank Alfred Braisted    Oct 30 1918 - Jan 24 1919 (Later RADM)
LCDR Russell Randolph Waesche Sr. (USCG)    May 1924 - Mar 1926 (Later ADM)
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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