Walke (DD 723) - Naval Cruise Book

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AA Y ,m,,7X1 ' f A . 1 ,.,, ' 51 ',,,,........' f ' 3'1 Ya ' pd wW,, ' ,. twig fl ' ,nv Q... .. Y . f, 1 n USS WALKE DD'34 WALKE i -1 YEAR USS WA L KE IDD-341 was launched on 3 November 1910 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Mildred Walke Walter, granddaughter of Rear-Admiral Henry Walke, and commissioned on 22 July 1911. The 889 ton destroyer was 293' 10 in length witha beam of 26' 12 and a draft of 8' 4 . Her arma- ment included 5 - 3 and 3 - 18 torpedo tubes, IDD-34l was able to attain speeds of 30 knots, WALKE with her crew of 88 was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet until decommissioned on l November 1913 and placed in resenie. On 22 March she was recommissioned and sewed durin9 World War I as a unit of Division THREE of the destrollef force. The first WALKE was decommissioned on 12 December 1919 and her name striken from the Navy list on 8 March 1935. She was scrapped at Philadelphia in accordance with the terms of the London Treaty. with the advent of hoitilitiegin EUVODG, the United States began to strengthen our land and naval forces Thus the second WAI-K5 Q?3E54L6ggtZn16'?AO tonh Sims Class deSt 0Verf Waslauthofized, and on 27 April 1940 was christened and commissioned at the Navv at d ' ha?SaC Useffsf bv 'VlfS- Clarence Dillon, grand-niece of Rear-Admirai waike with war in the Pacific, WALKE Was Commhte .to t e lob of de'aVin9 the advancing Japanese. Later that year she participated ih the Battle of Guadalcanal where affef Y enemy torpedoes and cruiser y3 ygyb gyyy against superior Japanese forces she was sunk b ' ' gunfire on 13 November 1942- 55 WALKE DD'4l6 ',ifif.i., 9