USS Beale (DD-40)
USS Beale (DD-40) moored to a buoy at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. She is painted in pattern camouflage. | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Beale |
| Namesake | Lieutenant (navy) Edward Fitzgerald Beale |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Cost | $669,168.12 (hull and machinery) |
| Yard number | 379 |
| Laid down | 8 May 1911 |
| Launched | 30 April 1912 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Emily Beale McLean, the daughter of Lt. Beale |
| Commissioned | 30 September 1912 |
| Decommissioned | 25 October 1919 |
| Stricken | 28 June 1934 |
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| Notes | Patterson lost her name to new construction on 5 July 1934 |
| United States | |
| Name | Beale |
| Acquired | 28 April 1924 |
| Commissioned | 26 October 1924 |
| Decommissioned | 1 June 1930 |
| Identification | Hull symbol:CG-9 |
| Fate | Returned to the Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
| Installed power | 12,000 ihp (8,900 kW) |
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| Complement | 4 officers 87 enlisted |
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USS Beale (DD-40), a Paulding-class destroyer served in the United States Navy during World War I and later with the United States Coast Guard. She was the first ship of the Navy to be named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale.
Beale was launched on 30 April 1912 and was commissioned on 30 August 1912. She served in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea until 1915 and with the Atlantic Fleet from 1916 until being decommissioned in 1919. She was transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1924. From 1924 to 1930 she operated to prevent rum-runners from illegally bringing alcoholic beverages into the United States. Beale was scrapped in 1934.