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Saturday, 29 October 2016

American destroyer USS Sproston (1918) in 1923

Launched at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Plant, San Francisco, USA in 1918, completed in 1919, displacement 1.215 tons, 27.000 hp horsepower, all turbine direct drive oil fuelled machinery and an armament of 4-4” guns, 2-14pd anti aircraft guns and 4x3-21” torpedo tubes. Fitted out as minelayer.

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.