The USS Graham (DD-192) was a Clemson-class destroyer constructed for the United States Navy shortly after World War I. Launched on March 22, 1919, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Virginia, she was sponsored by Mrs. Robert F. Smallwood, granddaughter of Secretary of the Navy William A. Graham. The vessel was commissioned on March 13, 1920, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, with a build cost of approximately $1,750,000, equivalent to about $32 million in 2024 dollars. Designed as a Clemson-class destroyer, the USS Graham served primarily within the Atlantic Fleet. Her early activities included trial runs along the East Coast and a unique assignment as a moving picture vessel, transporting photographers during the International Cup Race under the auspices of the New York Yacht Club from July 15 to July 27, 1920. Following this, she participated in exercises with the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet based in Newport, Rhode Island, and conducted neutrality patrols and training off Guantanamo Bay and in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1921, USS Graham took part in combined division, squadron, and fleet maneuvers off South America, visiting ports such as Callao, Peru, and Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. She also participated in the Presidential Fleet Review in Norfolk and conducted bombing tests on former German ships off Virginia. Notably, on October 27, 1921, she escorted the S.S. Paris, carrying General Foch, to New York and convoyed the vessel through Ambrose Channel. Her activities included anti-aircraft practice and a change of status from active commission to reduced complement on November 12, 1921. Her career was cut short after a collision with the SS Panama off the New Jersey coast on December 16, 1921. USS Graham was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on March 31, 1922, and sold for scrapping later that year, on September 19. As of 2005, no other vessel in the U.S. Navy has borne the name Graham, marking her as a brief but active participant in the post-World War I naval fleet.

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