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Sunday, 24 April 2016

American destroyer USS William B. Preston (1919) in 1923

Launched at Norfolk Navy yard in 1919, completed in 1920, displacement 1.215 tons, horsepower 27.000hp, all geared turbine oil fuelled machinery and an armament of 4-4” guns, 1-14pd anti aircraft gun and 4x3-21” torpedo tubes.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.