USS Conyngham, a 1090-ton Tucker class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Commissioned in January 1916, she took part in fleet exercises off the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean during the next year. In April 1917, soon after the United States entered World War I, Conyngham became one of the first U.S. destroyers to operate in the European combat zone. Based at Queenstown, Ireland, she conducted anti-submarine patrols, escorted convoys and rescued survivors of torpedoed ships during the rest of the conflict.
Returning home in December 1918, the destroyer participated in Caribbean maneuvers in February-April 1919 and helped cover the flying boat NC-4's trans-Atlantic flight in May of that year. Conyngham was in reserve for most of the following two years, but was active off the East Coast in 1921. Decommissioned in June 1922, she was loaned to U.S. Coast Guard in June 1924 and, as USCGC Conyngham (CG-2), spent nine years helping to enforce Prohibition laws. She was returned to the Navy in June 1933 and laid up as DD-58, her name having been taken for assignment to the new destroyer DD-371. The ship was sold for scrapping in August 1934.
USS Conyngham was named in honor of Captain Gustavus Conyngham (1747-1819), an important figure in the American Revolution's war against British commerce.
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