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USS SINCLAIR (DD-275)

CLASS - CLEMSON As Built.
Displacement 1,215 Tons, Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt..
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 114
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Squantum Ma. on October 15 1918.
Launched June 2 1919 and commissioned October 8 1919.
Decommissioned June 1 1930.
Stricken June 5 1935.
Fate Sold August 30 1935 and Broken up for scrap.
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Sinclair 128kUSS Sinclair (DD-275) and USS Sharkey (DD-281) At Boston, Massachusetts, December 1919. Photographed by Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland Street, Boston. Note the crude identification numbers on the ship's bows, probably added after the photograph was taken. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Sinclair 125kSinclair at the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad docks, Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada. The photo probably dates to 1920 when Sinclair was on tour of ports in B.C. and Alaska with the Secretary of the Navy and the Pacific Fleet Commander in Chief on board.Chuk Munson
Sinclair 98kUSS Sinclair (DD-275) Anchored in San Diego harbor, California, circa 1920. Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Sinclair 96kUSS Sinclair (DD-275) Underway in harbor, with her rails manned, during the middle or later 1920s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Sinclair 626kPhoto of the crew on the forecastle of the USS Doyen (DD-280), USS Laub (DD-263) and USS Sinclair (DD-275) taken in San Diego, CA on April 29, 1922.Larry Haggard
Sinclair 60kCulebra Island, Puerto Rico Destroyers at anchor in Culebra Bay, during the 1920s. Identifiable ships present include: USS Somers (DD-301), at right; USS Reno (DD-303), at left; USS Henshaw (DD-278), left center; USS Flusser (DD-289), beyond Henshaw; USS Sinclair (DD-275), center. Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Sinclair 80kCirca early 1930s.Marc Piché
Sinclair 116kUSS Sinclair (DD-275) Entering San Diego harbor, California, circa 1930. Ballast Point is in the left background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
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