USS Porter (DD-59), 1916-1934

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USS Porter (DD-59), a 1205-ton destroyer of the Tucker class, was the Navy's second ship of that name. She was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp & Sons in 1914-16. In May 1917, she was one of the first group of U.S. Navy destroyers to arrive in European waters for war service and remained active in the North Atlantic throughout World War I.

The Navy decommissioned Porter in 1922, but she reentered service as a U.S. Coast Guard patrol ship in 1924, serving in that role to the end of the Prohibition era. Returned to the Navy in 1933, Porter was scrapped the following year.

USS Porter (DD-59) was named in honor of Commodore David Porter, USN (1780-1843) and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter, USN (1813-1891).

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