USS Perkins (DD-26) was a modified in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 during World War I

World War I

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. She was the first ship named for Commodore

Commodore (rank)

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 George H. Perkins

George H. Perkins

Commodore George Hamilton Perkins was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

.

Perkins was laid down on 22 March 1909 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy, Massachusetts

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, christened by Commodore Perkins' daughter Isabel Weld Perkins

Isabel Weld Perkins

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 and launched from the Fore River on 9 April 1910. The "Perkins" was commissioned on 18 November 1910, Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

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 Joel R. P. Pringle

Joel R. P. Pringle

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 in command.

Pre-World War I

After almost seven years of peacetime service with active and reserve destroyer squadrons, Perkins recommissioned on 3 April 1917, Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 Frank M. Knox in command. Assigned to the second division of United States destroyer forces in Europe

Europe

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, a division which included , , and , she operated out of Queenstown, Ireland, from June into November 1917.

During this duty, she rescued survivors of Tarquah on 7 August, and escorted from Saint Nazaire to Ireland

Ireland

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 and from Queenstown to Liverpool

Liverpool

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. In November 1917 she departed Ireland for New York, New York.

During the winter

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 of 1917–1918, she underwent overhaul at Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

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. From March to December 1918 she operated out of Gravesend Bay, New York, on anti-submarine patrol and escort duty. She sighted German

Germany

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 submarine

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  off New Jersey

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 on 2 June 1918. On convoy

Convoy

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 duty, she escorted various ships, including and , between Halifax, Nova Scotia

City of Halifax

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 and New York.

Entering the Reserve Fleet

Reserve fleet

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 on 5 December 1919, she remained there until she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register

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on 8 March 1935, sold on 28 June, and scrapped.