USS Breese

USS Breese moored to a buoy circa 1920.
History
United States
Name	Breese
Namesake	Kidder Breese
Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Cost	$1,342,900.09 (hull & machinery)[1]
Laid down	10 November 1917
Launched	11 May 1918
Commissioned	23 October 1918
Decommissioned	17 June 1922
Reclassified	Light minelayer (DM-18), 5 January 1931
Recommissioned	1 June 1931
Decommissioned	15 January 1946
Stricken	7 February 1946
Fate	Sold for scrapping 16 May 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,213.1 tons
Length	314 ft 5 in (95.83 m)
Beam	31 ft 8 in (9.65 m)
Draft	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	122 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Breese (DD-122) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, and later redesignated, DM-18 in World War II. She was the only ship named for Captain Kidder Breese.

Commissioned as a destroyer in 1919, she undertook a number of patrol and training duties along the East Coast of the United States until being decommissioned in 1922. Overhauled in 1931, she returned to service with the United States Pacific Fleet on training and patrol for the next 10 years. She was present during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and following this she supported several operations during the war, laying minefields and sweeping for mines in the Pacific. Following the end of the war, she was sold for scrap in 1946 and broken up.