USS Perkins (DD-26) was a modified Paulding-class destroyer serving in the United States Navy during World War I. Laid down on 22 March 1909 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, the vessel was launched on 9 April 1910, with Commodore Perkins' daughter, Isabel Weld Perkins, as the sponsor. She was commissioned on 18 November 1910, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Joel R. P. Pringle. The Perkins spent nearly seven years in peacetime service with active and reserve destroyer squadrons. With her commissioning renewed on 3 April 1917, she was assigned to the second division of U.S. destroyer forces operating in Europe. During her wartime service, she operated primarily out of Queenstown, Ireland, from June to November 1917. Notably, she rescued survivors of the vessel Tarquah on 7 August 1917 and escorted the ships Bohemia from Saint Nazaire to Ireland, as well as the President Grant and President Washington from Queenstown to Liverpool. After returning to New York in November 1917, Perkins underwent an overhaul at Charleston, South Carolina, during the winter of 1917-1918. From March to December 1918, she conducted anti-submarine patrols and convoy escort duties out of Gravesend Bay, New York. On 2 June 1918, she sighted the German submarine U-151 off the coast of New Jersey. She also played a vital role in convoy operations, escorting ships such as the President Grant and President Washington between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New York. Following the war, Perkins was placed in the Reserve Fleet on 5 December 1919. She remained inactive until she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 March 1935 and was subsequently sold on 28 June of that year for scrapping. Her service highlights her role in escort and anti-submarine operations during critical periods of World War I maritime activity.

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