Warrington (DD 843) - Naval Cruise Book

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The first WARRINGTON CDDSOD was a torpedo boat destroyer built by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Buildin Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He? keel was laid June 21, 1909, and she was launched June 18, 1910, under the sponser- ship of Mrs. Richard Hatton, great grand- daughter of Commodore Lewis Warrington, USN. WARRINGTON had a length overall of 293 feet ll inches, was designed for a maximum speed of 29.5 knots, and held a complement of 4 officers and 85 men. Her original armament was five 3-inch guns, three .30 caliber machine guns, and six 18- inch torpedo tubes in three twin mounts. She was placed in commission at the Phil- adelphia Navy Yard on March 20, 1911, Lieutenant Walter M. Hunt, USN, in com- mand. She proceeded to the torpedo station at Newport, Rhode Island, where she joined the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet for duty involving training exercises with the combined US Atlantic fleet in waters off Cuba and in the Cape Cod Bay area. WARRINGTON cleared Charleston Harbor, South Carolina on Dec- ember 27, 1911, bound for Norfolk at 15 knots in company with the 8th and 9th Destroy- er Divisions. As she neared the Virginia Capes, a schooner, never identified, knlfed out of the darkness, shearing off thirty feet of WARRINGTON'S stern. Totally disabled in heavy seas, WARRINGTON anchored about 17 miles off Cape Hattaras Light. During the forenoon of the 28th all attempts to pass a tow line from destroyers, STERETT, WALKE and PERKINS failed, and the crip- pled ship showed a desire to present its stern to the sea. A steadying sail was rigged between the after stacks but this was not powerful enough to keep WARRINGTON in the wind. The U.S. Revenue Cutter CON- ONDAGA arrived on the scene at about 1:00 p.m., eventually taking WARRINGTON in tow for Norfolk. She was placed in reserve for repairs in the Norfolk Navy Yard until Dec- ember 2, 1912, then was assigned, for the next five years, to the Torpedo Flotilla making eastern seaboard cruises from New- port and Boston. WARRINGTON took up patrol off Newport at the outbreak of World War I, and cleared Boston on May 21, 1917, bound by way of Newfoundland for Queenstown, Ireland, basing her patrol and escort duties in the ocean approaches to the British Isles. This service continued until November 29, 1917. On May 30, 1918, WARRINGTON left a convoy off the French coast in answer to a distress call from the U.S. troop transport PRESIDENT LINCOLN. From twelve boats, she took aboard 312 survivors, then entered Brest Harbor and transferred the survivors to the transport GREAT NORTHERN. She continued escort duties out of Brest for the remainder of the war, and joined in the night Searchlight display in that harbor, the night of November 11, 1918, celebrating the ,Ar- mistice.She then proceeded to thie Pgiladefpgia Navy Yard, where s e rema ne un e- commissioned on January 31, 1920. WAR- RINGTON remained in the yard until sold for scrapping on July 13, 1935, in accord- ance with the terms of the London Treaty for naval disarmament. 27

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