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USS MACKENZIE DD-175

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Hull Number: DD-175

Launch Date: 09/29/1918

Commissioned Date: 07/25/1919

Decommissioned Date: 09/24/1940

Call Sign: NEVX


Class: LITTLE

LITTLE Class

Data for USS Little (DD-79) as of 1921

Length Overall: 314’ 4 1/2"

Beam: 31' 8"

Draft: 9’ 2"

Standard Displacement: 1,191 tons

Full Load Displacement: 1,284 tons

Armament:

Four 4″/50 caliber guns
One 3″/23 caliber anti-aircraft gun
Four 21″ triple torpedo tubes

Complement:

8 Officers
8 Chief Petty Officers
106 Enlisted

Propulsion:

4 Boilers
2 Curtis Geared Turbines: 27,180 horsepower

Highest speed on trials: 34.7 knots

Namesake: ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE

ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, May 2022

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Jr., born on 24 January 1842 in New York to Alexander Slidell and Catherine Alexander [Robinson] Mackenzie,  was appointed midshipman on 29 September 1855. He received advancement to lieutenant on 31 August 1861 and lieutenant commander on 29 July 1865. Serving in Hartford on the China station at the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to the United States and joined the gunboat Kineo, in which he served during Rear-Adm. David G. Farragut’s daring dash past Forts Jackson and St. Philip on the lower Mississippi to capture New Orleans in 1862. During 1863 and 1864 he participated in the blockade of Charleston and the attacks on Fort Sumter and Morris Island. After the end of the war, Lt. Cmdr. Mackenzie returned to the Far East in Hartford, in which he served until 13 June 1867, when he was killed on Formosa while leading a reprisal attack against those responsible for the deaths of the entire crew of the American bark Rover. “The Navy could boast no braver spirit,” Rear-Adm. Henry H. Bell eulogized him, “no man of higher promise.”


Disposition:

Stricken 1/8/1941. Scrapped 6/4/1945


Ship History

USS MACKENZIE DD-175 Ship History

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, May 2022

The second Mackenzie (Destroyer No. 175) was laid down on 4 July 1918, Independence Day, at San Francisco, Calif., by the Union Iron Works; launched on 29 September 1919; sponsored by Mrs. Percy J. Cotton, wife of the superintendent of hull construction at the buiulding yard; and commissioned on 25 July 1919, Lt. Cmdr. Eugene T. Oates in command.

Following commissioning and shakedown, Mackenzie — redesignated as DD-175 on 17 July 1920 — became a unit of the Pacific Fleet and operated with Destroyer Squadrons 2 and 4 until decommissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., on 27 May 1922. MacKenzie remained in reserve until she was recommissioned at San Diego on 6 November 1939, Cmdr. Fred W. Connor in command.

In 1940, the ship was one of 50 destroyers exchanged, under the terms of the Lend‑Lease Agreement, for strategic bases off the North American coast. She arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 20 September 1940. Mere, on the 24th, she decommissioned, was turned over to the Royal Canadian Navy and recommissioned as HMCS Annapolis. Mackenzie was stricken from the Navy Register on 8 January 1941.

Until 1944, Annapolis sailed with the Halifax and Western Local Escort Forces escorting convoys from east of St. Johns, Newfoundland, to New York. In April 1944, she was attached to HMCS Cornwallis, near Annapolis, Novia Scotia, where she remained as a training ship until the end of the war. On 4 June 1945, she was turned over to the War Assets Corp. and sold to Frankel Bros., Ltd., of Toronto for scrapping.