USS Haraden (DD-183)
| | Career |  | USN Jack |
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| Launched: | 4 July 1918 |
| Commissioned (USN): | 7 June 1919 |
| Decommissioned (USN): | 17 July 1922 |
| Recommissioned (USN): | 4 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned (USN): | 24 September 1940 |
| Commissioned (RCN): | 24 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: |
| Fate: | Scrapped, August 1945 |
| Struck: |
| General Characteristics |
|---|
| Displacement: | 1,060 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Propulsion: |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 101 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 4" (102 mm), 4 x 21" (533 mm) tt., 1 dep. |
The first
USS Haraden (DDâ€"183) was a
Wickes class destroyer in the
United States Navy following
World War I. She was later transferred to the
Royal Canadian Navy as
HMCS Columbia (I-49), as a
Town class destroyer.
Named for
Jonathan Haraden, she was launched by
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company,
Newport News, Virginia,
4 July 1918; sponsored by Miss Mabel B. Stephens, great-niece of Captain Jonathan Haraden; and commissioned at
Norfolk Navy Yard 7 June 1919, to Lieutenant Commander
R. H. Booth in command.
Haraden was assigned to U.S. Naval Forces in
European Waters; after calling at
Newport for supplies she departed
New York 30 June 1919 for duty in the
Adriatic Sea. She arrived
Spalato,
Dalmatia,
28 July 1919 and conducted operations from that port assisting the naval force in the execution of the terms of the
Austrian armistice, serving as station ship at
Trieste and
Flume, and participating in maneuvers. This duty occupied her until
23 October 1919, when she departed for
Norfolk, Virginia, arriving
18 November.
The destroyer departed Norfolk
7 April 1920 for
Charleston, South Carolina, and operated with reserve destroyer divisions out of Charleston -until
15 March 1921. After an extensive overhaul at New York, ending
2 May,
Haraden sailed for Newport and training operations off
New England. She returned to Charleston
12 October 1921 and to
Philadelphia 10 April 1922.
Haraden decommissioned
17 July 1922.
With the mounting tensions in 1939,
Haraden was called back to active service and recommissioned at Philadelphia
4 December 1939. After shakedown training at
Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, the destroyer performed
neutrality patrol in Cuban waters briefly and then returned to Newport,
6 March 1940. She subsequently conducted neutrality patrol in waters off
Block Island and
Nantucket Shoals, and made three training cruises in
Chesapeake Bay.
Arriving
Boston Navy Yard 7 September 1940,
Haraden was one of the fifty over-age destroyers to be sent to the United Kingdom in
exchange for bases. She sailed
18 September for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and decommissioned there for transfer to the British
24 September 1940. Her name was struck from the Navy List
8 January 1941.
See
USS Haraden for other ships of this name.
Assigned to
Canada and renamed HMCS
Columbia, she saw much service in
World War II. She first underwent refit and then was assigned to convoy duties in the
Atlantic. Her first major action began
15 October 1941 when she joined convoy SC-8, already under submarine attack.
Columbia, and the other escorts fought valiantly, but nine merchantmen from the convoy were sunk before reaching
England. After the U.S.'s entry into the war
Columbia was reassigned to convoy ships from New York to
St. Johns, Newfoundland, the first leg of the transatlantic journey. She escorted convoys and performed anti-submarine patrol until
25 February 1944, when she struck a cliff in foul weather off the coast of
Newfoundland. Columbia was not fully repaired after the accident but made watertight and used as a fuel and ammunition hulk in Nova Scotia until her return to the
War Assets Administration for disposal in August 1945 when she was sold for scrapping.
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