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Name | USS Mason |
Namesake | John Y. Mason |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 10 July 1918 |
Launched | 8 March 1919 |
Commissioned | 28 February 1920 |
Decommissioned | 3 July 1922 |
Recommissioned | 4 December 1939 |
Decommissioned | 8 October 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-191 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom 9 October 1940 |
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Name | HMS Broadwater |
Acquired | 9 October 1940 |
Commissioned | 9 October 1940 |
Identification | Pennant number: H81 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-101, 18 October 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1190 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
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USS Mason (DD-191) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Broadwater (H81).