Colonia Harbor Ships

USS Delaware (BB-28) of the United States Navy was a battleship launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1924, the lead ship of the Delaware class. She was part of the U.S. battleship squadron attached to the British Grand Fleet during World War I, United States Battleship Division Nine, and was the sixth ship to carry her name.

Delaware was launched on 6 February 1909 by Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Mrs. Anna P. Cahall, the niece of Simeon S. Pennewill, Governor of Delaware and commissioned on 4 April 1910, Captain C. A. Gove in command.

Pre-World War I

After visiting Wilmington, Delaware from 3–9 October 1910 to receive a gift of a silver service from the state, Delaware sailed from Hampton Roads on 1 November with the First Division, Atlantic Fleet, to visit Weymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France, and after battle practice at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returned to Norfolk, Virginia on 18 January 1911, after suffering a boiler explosion in fireroom 4 at 0920 hrs. on 17 January, killing eight and seriously scalding one crew. She departed on 31 January to carry the remains of Chilean Minister Cruz to Valparaíso, sailing by way of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Punta Arenas, Chile. Returning to New York City on 5 May, she sailed on 4 June for Portsmouth, England, where from 19–28 June she took part in the fleet review accompanying the coronation of King George V.

In her operations with the Fleet from 1912–1917, Delaware joined in exercises, drills, and torpedo practice at Rockport and Provincetown, Massachusetts; engaged in special experimental firing and target practice at Lynnhaven Roads; trained in Cuban waters participating in fleet exercises; and provided summer training for midshipmen. She passed before President William Howard Taft and the Secretary of the Navy in the Naval Review of 14 October 1912 and the next year visited Villefranche, France while on a cruise with Wyoming and Utah. In 1914 and again in 1916, she cruised off Veracruz to protect American lives and property during the political disturbances in Mexico.

World War I

When the US entered World War I, Delaware returned to Hampton Roads from winter maneuvers in the Caribbean to train armed guard crews and engineers, as well as join in exercises to ready the Fleet for war. On 25 November 1917, she sailed from Lynnhaven Roads with Battleship Division 9 (BatDiv 9), bound for Scapa Flow, Scotland. After battling bad weather in the North Atlantic, she joined the 6th Battle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet on 14 December for exercises to coordinate the operations of the Allied force.

The 6th Battle Squadron got underway on 6 February 1918 with an escort of eight British destroyers to convoy a large group of merchant ships to Norway. Cruising off Stavanger two days later, Delaware was attacked twice by a submarine, but each time skillful handling enabled the battleship to evade the torpedoes. The squadron returned to its home base at Scapa Flow on 10 February. Delaware participated in two more convoy voyages in March and April, then sailed with the Grand Fleet on 24 April to reinforce the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron which was on convoy duty and expected contact with the enemy. Only the vessels of the advance screen made any contact, and the chance for action faded.

From 30 June – 2 July, the 6th Battle Squadron, with a division of British destroyers as escort, went to sea to screen American ships laying the North Sea mine barrage. On 22 July, George V inspected the ships of the Grand Fleet at Rosyth, Scotland, and eight days later, after being relieved by Arkansas, Delaware sailed for Hampton Roads, arriving on 12 August.

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