USS Beale (DD-40), a Paulding-class

Paulding class destroyer

The Paulding-class destroyers were a modification of the Smith-class. The newer class burned oil rather than coal, lightening the ships and making them faster....

 destroyer

Destroyer

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 in the United States Navy

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 during World War I

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 and later in the United States Coast Guard

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, designated CG-9. She was the first ship of the Navy to be named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale

Edward Fitzgerald Beale

Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale was a national figure in 19th century America. He was naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat, and friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody and Ulysses S. Grant...

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Beale was launched on 30 April 1912 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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; sponsored by Mrs. John R. McLean, daughter of Lieutenant Beale

Edward Fitzgerald Beale

Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale was a national figure in 19th century America. He was naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat, and friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody and Ulysses S. Grant...

; and commissioned 30 August 1912, Lieutenant, junior grade

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 C. T. Blackburn in command.

World War I

Beale joined the 5th Group, Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet

United States Fleet Forces Command

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, and cruised along the Atlantic coast and in Mexican

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 and Caribbean

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 waters until placed in reserve on 13 December 1915. Reactivated - with a reduced crew - on 5 January 1916, she served on Neutrality Patrol

Neutrality Patrol

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 along the Atlantic coast until placed in full commission on 22 March 1917. Joining the Atlantic Destroyer Force, she arrived at Queenstown, Ireland on 5 February 1918.

Inter-war period

Beale operated out of Queenstown on convoy and patrol duty until the end of World War I. She returned to the United States

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 in December 1918 and served with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 October 1919. Reactivated in 1924, Beale was transferred to the Coast Guard on 28 April 1924 for use in enforcing the Prohibition Act

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. She was returned to the Navy on 18 October 1930 and was laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard until scrapped in 1934.