USS Worden (DD-16)
USS Worden (DD-16) at anchor, possibly in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area in 1907.
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| Name: | Worden |
| Namesake: | Rear admiral John Lorimer Worden |
| Builder: | Maryland Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland |
| Laid down: | 13 November 1899 |
| Launched: | 15 August 1901 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Daniel F. Worden, the daughter-in-law of Rear Admiral Worden |
| Commissioned: | 17 March 1903 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 July 1919 |
| Struck: | 15 September 1919 |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:DD-16 |
| Fate: | Sold January 3, 1920 into the merchant service as banana carrier |
| Status: | 1 May 1942 Worden was sunk by the German Submarine U-109 |
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| Class and type: | Truxtun-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 433 long tons (440 t) normal, 605 long tons (615 t) full load |
| Length: | 259 ft 6 in (79.10 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 3 in (7.09 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
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| Speed: | 29.6 kn (34.1 mph; 54.8 km/h) |
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The first USS Worden (DD-16) was a Truxtun-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral John Lorimer Worden.
Worden was laid down at Sparrows Point, Maryland, on 13 November 1899 by the Maryland Steel Company; launched on 15 August 1901; sponsored by Mrs. Daniel F. Worden, the daughter-in-law of Rear Admiral Worden; and commissioned on 17 March 1903, Lieutenant Benjamin B. McCormick in command.
Worden passed her final acceptance test on 18 July and began duty with the 2nd Torpedo Flotilla, based at Norfolk, Virginia. For more than four years, she remained a unit of the 2nd Torpedo Flotilla and conducted operations along the eastern seaboard from Maine south to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Annually, she participated in the Fleet maneuvers held in the warm waters of the Caribbean.
On 18 November 1907, the warship was placed in reserve at the Norfolk Navy Yard. As a unit of the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla, she was berthed first at Norfolk and, later, at Charleston, South Carolina. Save for a six-month interlude from May to November 1909 when she was returned to full commission, Worden remained inactive until 1912. Then, though still in reserve, she was loaned to the Pennsylvania Naval Militia for training purposes and was stationed at Philadelphia until returned to Charleston and the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla the following year.
Sometime in 1914, the torpedo-boat destroyer became a tender to the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force and continued to operate in support of submarines until sometime in March 1917 when she was sent to New York on special duty in connection with a recruiting campaign necessitated by the probability that the United States would enter World War I. In June, she was reassigned back to her own type command as a unit of Division B, Destroyer Force; however, she continued her recruiting duty at New York through the end of the year.
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