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Aylwin class destroyer

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|Ship armament=*4 × /50 caliber guns Construction of the vessel—like her three sister ships—was awarded to William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia which laid down her keel on 14 March 1912. The ship was the first U. S. Navy vessel named in honor of the American admiral. Benhams main battery consisted of four /50 caliber Mark 9 guns, with each gun weighing in excess of about off the Diamond Shoals lightship. An explosion ripped through the forward fire room on Aylwin, injuring three men. Benham loaded the three wounded sailors and sped to the naval hospital at Norfolk, Virginia, while Parker took on the remainder of Aylwins crew. One of the injured men died on Benham before landfall was made in Virginia; Aylwin remained afloat but, unmanned, was towed into Norfolk by Parker and U. S. Navy tug Sonoma. Prior to the entrance of the United States into World War I, she served on Neutrality Patrol duty, trying to protect American and neutral flagged merchant ships from interference by British or German warships and U boats. The American destroyers arrived on the scene about 17:00 when the U boat, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans Rose, was in the process of stopping the Holland America Line cargo ship Shortly after, U 53 stopped the British passenger ship As Rose had done with three other ships U 53 had sunk earlier in the day, he gave passengers and crew aboard Blommersdijk and Stephano adequate time to abandon the ships before sinking the pair. In total, 226 survivors from U 53s five victims were rescued by the destroyer flotilla. Benham picked up the captain of and crewmen from Blommersdijk for transport to Newport.

After the United States entered World War I on 6 April 1917, Benham was one of the first group of destroyers chosen for anti submarine duty in European waters. She departed Tompkinsville, New York on 17 May and arrived in Queenstown, Ireland on 24 May. Four days later, the destroyer began the first of many tours of duty at sea hunting U boats and shepherding convoys to their destinations. The event is not mentioned in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; the extent of the damage to both ships is unknown. A photograph from the U. S. Navy's Naval History & Heritage Command website shows a nearly sunken Benham moored between two ships.

On 21 December 1918, Benham put to sea from Brest for the last time and began the voyage back to the United States. Rejoining the Atlantic Fleet at the beginning of 1919, the warship participated in the annual fleet maneuvers held in Cuban waters and then made a cruise to the Azores in May. Upon her return to the United States that summer, she was placed in ordinary at Norfolk on 28 June. Active again in 1921, she patrolled the eastern seaboard until assigned duty as plane guard and tender to the Atlantic Fleet Air Squadrons. That duty terminated in May 1922, and she stood into Philadelphia on 12 May to prepare for inactivation. Benham was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 7 July 1922. The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 March 1935, and, on 23 April, was ordered scrapped at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.