USS Foote (DD-169)#In Soviet service
{{Short description|Wickes-class destroyer}}
{{Other ships|USS Foote}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:USSFooteDD169.jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1940}} |Ship name=Foote |Ship namesake=Andrew Hull Foote |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |Ship laid down=7 August 1918 |Ship launched=14 December 1918 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=21 March 1919 |Ship decommissioned=6 July 1922 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=yes |Ship recommissioned=2 July 1940 |Ship decommissioned=23 September 1940 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck=8 January 1941 |Ship reinstated= |Ship honors= |Ship fate=Transferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=HMS Roxborough |Ship namesake= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=23 September 1940 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship identification=Pennant number:I07 |Ship fate=Transferred to USSR, 1 August 1944 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Soviet Union |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval-1935}} |Ship name=*Zhyostky ("Rigid")
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The second USS Foote (DD–169) was a {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer}} in the United States Navy following World War I. She was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Roxborough (I07) and later to the Soviet Navy as Zhyostky (or Doblestny ; sources vary).
Service history
=As USS ''Foote''=
Named for Admiral Andrew Hull Foote, she was launched 14 December 1918 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Lelia F. Cady, daughter of Admiral Foote; and commissioned 21 March 1919.
Foote sailed from Boston 3 May 1919 to take up an observation station off Newfoundland for the historic first aerial crossing of the Atlantic, made later that month by Navy seaplanes. She returned to Boston 22 May to complete her interrupted fitting out, then took part in training operations until sailing from Newport 27 August bound for a tour of duty with Naval Forces European Waters. From September through December, she served in the Adriatic, and then called at Italian and French ports homeward bound. Arriving at Boston 12 February 1920, she was placed in reserve 24 February for repairs there and at Charleston.
In the summer of 1921, Foote operated with 50 percent of her complement during summer target practice in Narragansett Bay, and returning to Charleston, she lay there and at Boston for alterations and repairs until decommissioned at Philadelphia 6 July 1922. Recommissioned 2 July 1940, Foote operated on patrol out of Charleston, until sailing 7 September for Halifax, Nova Scotia. There, on 23 September 1940, she was decommissioned and transferred to the Royal Navy in the destroyers for land bases exchange.
=As HMS ''Roxborough''=
File:HMS Roxburgh (I07) underway in Hampton Roads on 3 September 1942.jpg
Commissioned as HMS Roxborough 23 September 1940, the destroyer crossed the Atlantic to join the Western Approaches Command, guarding convoys during the dangerous last leg of their voyages into British ports. In March 1942, Roxborough took up western Atlantic escort duty out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Roxborough was modified for trade convoy escort service by removal of three of the original 4"/50 caliber gun guns and one of the triple torpedo tube mounts to reduce topside weight for additional depth charge stowage and installation of Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar.Lenton&Colledge (1968) p.92
While with convoy HX222 Roxborough met with such heavy weather that the entire bridge structure was crushed, with eleven dead, including the Commanding Officer and 1st Lieutenant. The sole surviving executive officer managed to regain control of the ship, and under hand steering from aft, she made St. John's, Newfoundland.
Returning to the Tyne 10 January 1944, Roxborough lay in reserve there until transferred to the Soviet Navy on 1 August 1944.
=In Soviet service =
On 1 August 1944 Roxborough was transferred to the Soviet Navy. She was renamed (sources vary) either Zhyostky (rus. "Rigid")DANFS or Doblestny (rus. "Glorious or Valiant").Conway p332 She was returned to Great Britain 7 February 1949 and was scrapped on 14 May 1949.
Notes
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References
- {{cite book|editor-last1=Gardiner|editor-first1=Robert|editor-last2=Chesneau|editor-first2=Roger|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|year=1980|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
- {{cite book |title=Destroyers for Great Britain: A History of 50 Town Class Ships Transferred From the United States to Great Britain in 1940 |date=1988 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=0-87021-782-8 |edition=Rev. and expanded |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/destroyersforgre0000hagu }}
- {{Cite book| title=British and Dominion Warships of World War II |author=Lenton, H.T. and Colledge J.J. |publisher=Doubleday and Company |year=1968}}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/foote-ii.html}}
External links
{{Commons category|USS Foote (DD-169)}}
- {{navsource|05/169}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081210004122/http://sovnavy-ww2.by.ru/destroyers/typ_town.htm SovietNavy-WW2: Таун ("Town") class]
- [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5408.html U-boat.net: Doblestnyj]
{{Wickes-class destroyer}}
{{Town class destroyers}}
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Category:World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Soviet Navy