USS Bancroft (DD-256)
USS Bancroft (DD-256) underway circa 1940 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Bancroft |
| Namesake | George Bancroft |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy |
| Cost | $1,218,962.89 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down | 4 November 1918 |
| Launched | 21 March 1919 |
| Commissioned | 30 June 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification | Hull number DD-256 |
| Fate | Transferred to Canada, 24 September 1940 |
| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS St. Francis |
| Namesake | St. Francis River |
| Commissioned | 24 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number I93 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1941–43 |
| Fate | Declared surplus, 1 April 1945; sank off Cape Cod en route to scrapping, July 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,216 long tons (1,236 t) |
| Length | 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 122 |
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The second USS Bancroft (DD-256) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in 1919. Placed in reserve, the ship lay idle before being reactivated for World War II. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940, where she served as HMCS St. Francis (I93) in the Battle of the Atlantic escorting convoys. The ship was declared surplus in April 1945, sold for scrap and sank on the way to the breakers after a collision in July.