USS Ward
Ward in dazzle camouflage in 1918 (as DD-139) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Ward |
| Namesake | James H. Ward |
| Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
| Laid down | 15 May 1918 |
| Launched | 1 June 1918 |
| Commissioned | 24 July 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 21 July 1921 |
| Recommissioned | 15 January 1941 |
| Reclassified | High-speed transport, APD-16, 6 February 1943 |
| Fate | Sunk by kamikaze 7 December 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,247 long tons (1,267 t) |
| Length | 314 ft 4 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 11 in (9.4 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 10 in (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement | 231 officers and enlisted |
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USS Ward was laid down as a 1,247-long-ton (1,267 t) Wickes-class destroyer (designated DD-139) in the United States Navy during World War I, later converted to a high speed transport (designated APD-16) in World War II. She was responsible for the first American-caused casualties in the Pacific in World War II when she engaged and sank a Japanese midget submarine before Japanese aircraft arrived in the attack on Pearl Harbor, killing both crewmen on board.