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USS Yarnall (DD-143)

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Career (USN)
East River, New York City
Ordered:
Laid down:	12 February 1918
Launched:	19 June 1918
Commissioned:	29 November 1918 19 April 1930 4 October 1939
Decommissioned:	29 May 1922 30 December 1936 23 October 1940
Struck:	8 January 1941
Career (RN)
Commissioned:	23 October 1940
Transferred:	February 1942
Career (Royal Norwegian Navy)
Transferred:	July 1942
Career (RCN)
Transferred:	Reserve January 1944
Career (USSR)
Transferred:	26 August 1944
Fate:	Used for parts, 1944
General characteristics
Displacement:	1154 tons
Length:	314 ft 4 ½ in (95.82 m)
Beam:	30 ft 11 ¼ in (9.43 m)
Draft:	9 ft 10 ¼ in (3 m)
Propulsion:
Speed:	35.12 knots (65 km/h)
Complement:	122 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 x 4 in (102 mm) guns, 2 x 3 in (76 mm) guns, 12 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 x .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns, 2 x depth charge racks

The first USS Yarnall (DD–143) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Lincoln, and subsequently to the Soviet Navy as Druzhny.

1 As USS Yarnall
2 As Lincoln
3 As Druzhny
4 See also
5 Sources
6 External links

As USS Yarnall

Named for John Yarnall, she was laid down on 12 February 1918 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company; launched on 19 June 1918; sponsored by Mrs. Marie H. Bagley; and commissioned on 29 November 1918, Commander William F. Halsey, Jr., in command. Assigned to Division 15, Destroyer Force, Yarnall served briefly with United States naval forces in France during 1919. By 1 January 1920, her division had been reassigned to Flotilla 5, Destroyer Squadron 4, Pacific Fleet, and operated out of the San Diego destroyer base. Her division—redesignated Division 13 in February—received orders in April to proceed to the Asiatic station; but she apparently did not begin that assignment until late the following fall. Yarnall returned from the Far East to the United States late in the summer of 1921 and began repairs at Puget Sound. In December, she was reassigned to Division 11 and again operated out of San Diego until 29 May 1922 when she was decommissioned there and placed in reserve. After almost eight years of inactivity, the destroyer was recommissioned at San Diego on 19 April 1930, Comdr. John F. McClain in command. Assigned initially to Division 11, Squadron 10, Battle Fleet Destroyer Squadrons, Yarnall operated briefly on the west coast before being transferred to the east coast sometime late in 1930. By New Year's Day, 1931, her home port had been changed to Charleston, South Carolina. In March, she joined the Scouting Force as a unit of Destroyer Division 3 but retained Charleston as her home port. The destroyer operated out of that base until late in the summer of 1934 when, though still a unit of Scouting Force Destroyers, she returned to the west coast. Based at San Diego, the warship remained active along the California coast until late in 1936. She then returned to the east coast and, on 30 December 1936, was placed out of commission at Philadelphia and berthed there with the reserve fleet. As a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program to bolster the minuscule Atlantic Squadron after war broke out in Europe in September 1939, Yarnall ended her 21-month, second retirement on 4 October 1939 when she was recommissioned at Philadelphia, Lt. Comdr. John G. Winn in command. She became a unit of Destroyer Squadron 11 of the Atlantic Squadron, the small fleet assigned the enormous task of keeping war out of the western hemisphere. She operated out of Norfolk in the Neutrality Patrol until the fall of 1940 when the United States concluded the destroyers-for-bases deal with the United Kingdom. Yarnall was stricken from the United States Navy list on 8 January 1941 — soon after her transfer to the Royal Navy. See USS Yarnall for other ships of this name.

As Lincoln

Yarnall was one of the 50 elderly destroyers chosen to be transferred to the Royal Navy in return for the right to establish American bases on British territory in the western hemisphere. She sailed to St. John's, Newfoundland, where she was decommissioned by the United States Navy on 23 October 1940; and, that same day, the Royal Navy commissioned her as HMS Lincoln (G.42) as a Town class destroyer, Comdr. G. B. Sayer, RN, in command. The veteran destroyer departed St. John's on 3 November and arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the 9th. Lincoln moved from there to Londonderry Port where she was assigned to the First Escort Group, Western Approaches Command. For almost a year, she met troop transport and cargo convoys in mid-ocean and escorted them into ports in the British Isles. Between September 1941 and February 1942, the destroyer was refitted at Woolwich Dockyard. After the refit, she was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Lincoln and served with the Western Local Escort Force, operating along the Newfoundland coast between Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John's. In July 1942, HNoMS Lincoln became HMCS Lincoln when she was transferred from the Royal Norwegian Navy to the Royal Canadian Navy — although still manned by Norwegians. Her duty in Canadian waters continued until the end of 1943, when she returned to Britain departing Halifax on 19 December and arriving back in Londonderry Port on Christmas Day. Early in 1944, the venerable warship was placed in reserve in the River Tyne. Her service to the Allied cause, however, had not quite ended.

As Druzhny

On 26 August 1944, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy and renamed Druzhny (rus. Дружный, "Friendly"). There is some disagreement on her career in the Soviet Navy. Western sources indicate she was cannibalized to provide spare parts for eight sister ships provided to the Soviet Union in late 1944; one Russian source indicates she was used on active duty from 23 September 1944 until the end of the war, and was returned in August 1952 to Britain where she was sold for scrap.