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{{Tenure|rank={{EnsUS}}|name=David Hunt Stuart|nick=David H. Stuart|appt=15 March, 1913|end=14 May, 1914}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{EnsUS}}|name=David Hunt Stuart|nick=David H. Stuart|appt=15 March, 1913|end=14 May, 1914}}

Latest revision as of 20:23, 13 March 2022

U.S.S. Preston (1909)
Hull Number: DD-19
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation[1]
Laid down: 28 Apr, 1908[2]
Launched: 14 Jul, 1909[3]
Commissioned: 24 Dec, 1909[4]
Decommissioned: 17 Jul, 1919[5]
Stricken: 15 Sep, 1919[6]
Sold: 21 Nov, 1919[7]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Preston was one of five Smith class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy in 1909-10.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 121.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  8. Pensacola News Journal 20 February, 1910 p. 6.
  9. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 24.
  10. Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 48-49.

Bibliography


Smith Class Destroyer
Smith Lamson Preston Flusser Reid
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