USS Tucker, a 1090-ton destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1916. She operated along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean area for the next year. In May 1917, a month after the United States entered World War I, she steamed across the Atlantic to begin combat service in the waters off the British Isles. Based at Queenstown, Ireland, she was employed on convoy and anti-submarine patrol service until June 1918, when her base was shifted to Brest, France. During her wartime operations, Tucker rescued survivors of two merchant ships and the French cruiser Dupetit Thouars. In August 1918 she also delivered a depth charge attack on a German U-boat, but with inconclusive results.
Tucker returned to the U.S. in December 1918, a month after the fighting had ended. She spent most of the next year in the New England area and was in reserve status at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between October 1919 and May 1921, when she was placed out of commission. In July 1920, as the Navy implemented its hull number system, she was designated DD-57.
In March 1926 Tucker was placed in service with the U.S. Coast Guard as part of the effort to enforce Prohibition. In addition to cruising along the Atlantic Coast in search of rum runners, in April 1933 she took part in rescue activities after the crash of the airship Akron. Tucker's Coast Guard service ended in June 1933 and she was returned to the Navy and laid up. In November of that year she was renamed DD-57, allowing the name Tucker to be assigned to the new destroyer DD-374. After brief use as a Sea Scout training ship at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, DD-57 was sold for scrapping in December 1936.
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