USS Sampson, 1111-ton lead ship of a class of six destroyers that introduced the triple 21-inch torpedo tube mounting to U.S. Navy service, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in late June 1916, she operated along the U.S. East Coast until May 1917, when, about a month after the United States had entered World War I, she steamed across the Atlantic to the European combat zone. For the rest of the conflict Sampson was based at Queenstown, Ireland, from which she conducted anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort missions. The destroyer returned to the U.S. early in 1919 and was employed during much of that year on torpedo test work. In May 1919 Sampson went to the Azores to serve as part of the destroyer picket line that supported the trans-Atlantic flight of the seaplane NC-4. Decommissioned in June 1921, she was laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the next decade and a half. USS Sampson was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1936 and sold for scrapping in September of that year.
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