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{{Short description|Clemson-class destroyer}}
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|Ship name=USS ''Satterlee''
|Ship namesake=[[Charles Satterlee]]
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|Ship builder=[[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company]]
|Ship laid down=10 July 1918
|Ship launched=21 December 1918
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|Ship class={{sclass|Clemson|destroyer}}
|Ship displacement={{convert|1215|LT|t|0|abbr=on}}
|Ship length={{convert|314|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|30|ft|11|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draft={{convert|9|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=*2 × geared [[steam turbine]]s
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|Ship range={{convert|4900|nmi|mi km|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}}
|Ship complement=122 officers and enlisted
|Ship armament=*4 × [[4"/50 caliber gun|{{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}}]]/50 cal guns
* 1 × [[3"/23 caliber gun|{{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on}}]]/23 cal [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft gun]]
* 12 × [[American 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s
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'''USS ''Satterlee'' (DD-190)''' was a {{sclass|Clemson|destroyer}} in the [[United States Navy]], entering service in 1919. After brief service until 1922, the ship was placed in reserve. The ship was reactivated for [[World War II]] before being transferred to the [[Royal Navy]] in 1940. Renamed '''HMS ''Belmont''''', the destroyer was used as a convoy escort in the [[Battle of the Atlantic]] where she was torpedoed and sunk on 31 January 1942.

==Construction==
The ''Clemson''-class was a modified version of the previous {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer|4}} (itself a faster version of the {{sclass|Caldwell|destroyer|4}}) with more fuel, as many of the ''Wickes''-class had poor fuel economy and hence endurance. Like the ''Wickes''-class ships, the ''Clemsons''s had [[flush-deck]]s and four funnels and were ordered in very large numbers to meet the US Navy's need for ships to counter German U-boats as well as to operate with the fleet.<ref name="conways6p124-5">{{harvnb|Gardiner|Gray|1985|pp=124–125}}</ref><ref name="friedusp39-2">{{harvnb|Friedman|1982|pp=39–42}}</ref>

''Saterlee'' was {{convert|314|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} [[length overall|long overall]] and {{convert|310|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} [[Waterline length|at the waterline]], with a [[Beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|30|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} and a [[Draft (ship)|draft]] of {{convert|9|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}}. [[Displacement (ship)|Displacement]] was {{convert|1190|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} normal and {{convert|1308|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load.<ref name="conways6p124-5"/> Four White-Forster [[water-tube boiler]]s supplied steam to two sets of [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]] geared [[steam turbines]].<ref name="jfs20p204">{{harvnb|Parkes|Prendergast|1920|p=204}}</ref> The machinery was rated at {{convert|27000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}, giving a design speed of {{convert|35|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}}. The ship had a designed endurance of {{convert|2500|nmi|mi km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|20|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}}.<ref name="conways6p124-5"/>

Main gun armament consisted of four [[4"/50 caliber gun|{{convert|4|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} /50 caliber gun]]s, with one forward and one aft on the ship's centerline, and the remaining two on the ships beam. Anti-aircraft armament consisted of two [[3"/23 caliber gun]]s, while torpedo armament consisted of twelve 21 inch (533&nbsp;mm) torpedo tubes, arranged in four triple mounts on the ship's beams.<ref name="conways6p124-5"/><ref name="Haguep7-8">{{harvnb|Hague|1988|pp=7–8}}</ref>

''Saterlee'' was the first ship named for Captain [[Charles Satterlee]] [[United States Coast Guard|USCG]] (1875&ndash;1918), captain of the [[US Coast Guard]] cutter {{USCGC|Tampa|1912|2}}, who was killed when ''Tampa'' was sunk by a German submarine on 26 September 1918.<ref name="danfs">{{cite DANFS |title=Satterlee I (Destroyer No. 190) | url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/satterlee-i.html |access-date=24 January 2020}}</ref> The ship was [[Keel laying|laid down]] on 10 July 1918 at the [[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company]], [[Newport News, Virginia]] shipyard and was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 21 December 1918. The ship was sponsored by Ms. Rebecca E. Satterlee, niece of the ship's namesake. The destroyer was [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 23 December 1919.<ref name="danfs"/><ref name="friedusp434">{{harvnb|Friedman|1982|p=434}}</ref>

==Service==
===United States Navy service===
''Satterlee'' joined her destroyer flotilla at [[Manzanillo, Cuba|Manzanillo]], Cuba on 27 January 1920 and conducted training in the [[Caribbean]] until 26 April. She then carried out further [[Sea trials|trials]] and underwent defect rectification before rejoining her flotilla at [[Naval Station Newport]], the naval base on [[Newport, Rhode Island]], on 11 June.<ref name="danfs"/> ''Saterlee'' attended that year's [[1920 America's Cup|America's Cup]] yachting races off [[New York City]] from 9–26 July, and visited Miami from 2–28 August before resuming training off Newport.<ref name="danfs"/> On 27 December that year, three of the ship's crew absconded with $72,000 which had been delivered to the ship earlier that day. The three men were subsequently arrested and convicted of the theft, being sentenced to a five year prison sentence.<ref>{{harvnb|''Cases Decided''|1927|pp=629–631}}</ref> The destroyer joined the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic Fleet]] at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo Bay]] on 10 January 1921 to take part in the fleet maneuvers which continued until 24 April. She then resumed training and upkeep along the Atlantic coast until she was decommissioned on 11 July 1922 and placed in reserve at [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="danfs"/>

With war breaking out in both Europe and the Far East, ''Satterlee'' was recommissioned at Philadelphia on 18 December 1939 and assigned to duty on [[Neutrality Patrol]]. She arrived in the Caribbean on 2 February 1940 for patrol duty and training. The ship departed the Caribbean on 15 April, and underwent overhaul at [[Norfolk, Virginia]] from 19 April – 5 July. She then operated along the east coast until decommissioned on 8 October.

===Royal Navy service===
''Satterlee'' was transferred to the United Kingdom on the same day and served the [[Royal Navy]] as '''HMS ''Belmont''''', one of [[Town-class destroyer|50 old American destroyers]] [[Destroyers for Bases Agreement|exchanged for bases]] in British colonies in the western Atlantic.

HMS ''Belmont'' was commissioned on 8 October 1940, and sailed for Britain on 15 October. ''Belmont'' reached [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland, on 24 October and reaching [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport]] on 28 October, where she underwent a refit, completed on 25 November that year.<ref name="townp22">{{harvnb|Hague|1988|p=22}}</ref> She joined the 3d Escort Group in the [[Western Approaches Command]] and conducted escorting duty for Atlantic [[convoy]]s, broken only for repairs of collision damage between March and July 1941. On 31 January 1942, she was struck by a single torpedo south of Newfoundland in position 42º02'N, 57º18'W, and sunk with the loss of all 138 hands by the German [[U-boat]] {{GS|U-82|1941|2}} while escorting a convoy (NA.2) of British and Canadian airmen to the United Kingdom.

==Citations==
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==References==
*{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/satterlee-i.html}}
* {{cite book |title=Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States April 1, 1926 to January 31, 1927 |year=1927 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1sdAQAAMAAJ |ref={{harvid|''Cases Decided''|1927}} }}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History|year=1982|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland, USA|isbn=0-87021-733-X}}
* {{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Gray|first2=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5}}
*{{cite book|last=Hague|first=Arnold|title=The Towns: A history of the fifty destroyers transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940|year=1988|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Kendal, UK|isbn=0-905617-48-7}}
*{{cite book <!-- Citation bot bypass-->|editor1-last=Parkes |editor1-first=Oscar|editor2-last=Prendergast |editor2-first=Maurice |title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1920 |year=1920 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106904893&view=1up&seq=149 |via=Hathitrust |access-date=24 December 2020 }}

==External links==
{{Commons category|USS Satterlee (DD-190)}}
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/190.htm navsource.org: USS ''Satterlee'']
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd190txt.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Satterlee'']

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