USS Ringgold (DD-89)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Ringgold.
USS Ringgold (DD-89) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and the interwar period. During World War II, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Navy as a Town-class destroyer named HMS Newark, being scrapped after the end of the war in 1947.
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United States | |
Name | USS Ringgold |
Namesake | Cadwalader Ringgold |
Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 20 October 1917 |
Launched | 14 April 1918 |
Commissioned | 14 November 1918 |
Decommissioned | 17 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 23 August 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-89 |
Fate | Transferred to UK, 26 November 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Newark |
Commissioned | 26 November 1940 |
Fate | Scrapped, 18 February 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,060 tons |
Length | 315 ft 5 in (96.14 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 134 officers and enlisted |
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