USS Williams (DD-108)
USS Williams underway
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Williams |
| Namesake: | John Foster Williams |
| Builder: | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 25 March 1918 |
| Launched: | 4 July 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1 March 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 June 1922 |
| Commissioned: | 6 November 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-108 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada
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| Name: | HMCS St. Clair |
| Namesake: | St. Clair River |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Identification: | I65 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1943–44 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,191 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
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USS Williams (DD-108) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy entering service in 1919, and was the second ship to bear the name. Following a brief stint in active service, the ship was laid up for 17 years before being reactivated during World War II. Williams transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II and was renamed HMCS St. Clair (I65), surviving the war and being scrapped in 1946.
Named in honor of John Foster Williams, she was laid down on 25 March 1918 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Williams was launched on 4 July 1918; sponsored by Mrs. H. G. Leopold, the wife of Comdr. H. G. Leopold. The destroyer commissioned on 1 March 1919 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, Comdr. Matthias E. Manly in command.
Following shakedown, Williams and the destroyer Belknap departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 5 June 1919, bound for the Azores. Arriving at Ponta Delgada on 11 June, Williams proceeded to Gibraltar, where she picked up information pertaining to minefields still extant in the Adriatic, for delivery to the Commander, Naval Forces, Eastern Mediterranean. The destroyer's brief tour of duty in this area of the world took her to Split, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Gallipoli, in the Dardanelles; and Trieste, Italy, where she operated as part of the US naval forces keeping watch on the tense local situations there in the aftermath of the World War.
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