USS Burrows (DD-29)
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USS Burrows (DD-29) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and later in the United States Coast Guard, designated (CG-10). She was the second ship named for Lieutenant William Ward Burrows II.
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USS Burrows (DD-29) and USS Jenkins (DD-42) in port, dressed with flags, circa 1919. | |
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United States | |
Name | Burrows |
Namesake | Lieutenant William Ward Burrows II awarded Congressional Gold Medal |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey |
Cost | $679,302.27[1] |
Laid down | 19 June 1909 |
Launched | 23 June 1910 |
Sponsored by | Miss Lorna Dorothea Burrows |
Commissioned | 21 February 1911 |
Decommissioned | 12 December 1919 |
Stricken | 5 July 1934 |
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Fate |
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United States | |
Name | Burrows |
Acquired | 7 June 1924[2] |
Commissioned | 30 June 1925[2] |
Decommissioned | 14 February 1931[2] |
Identification | Hull symbol:CG-10 |
Fate | transferred back to the United States Navy |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Paulding-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 293 ft 10 in (89.56 m) |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (mean)[4] |
Installed power | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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Speed | |
Complement | 4 officers 87 enlisted[5] |
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Burrows was launched on 23 June 1910 by New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, sponsored by Miss Lorna Dorthea Burrows, a relative of Lieutenant Burrows, and commissioned on 21 February 1911.