USS Colhoun (DD-85)

History
United States
Name	Colhoun
Namesake	Edmund Colhoun
Builder	Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down	19 September 1917
Launched	21 February 1918
Commissioned	13 June 1918
Decommissioned	28 June 1922
Recommissioned	11 December 1940, as APD-2
Fate	Sunk 30 August 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,060 tons
Length	315 ft 5 in (96.14 m)
Beam	31 ft 9 in (9.68 m)
Draft	9 ft 2 in (2.79 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 cal. guns 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/23 cal. gun 4 × 3 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Colhoun (DD-85/APD-2) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and later redesignated APD-2 in World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for Edmund Colhoun.

Launched in 1918, she remained on convoy duty for the final few months of World War I, and she then operated out of the Atlantic for several years until being decommissioned in 1922. Returning to service in 1940 as a high-speed troop transport, Colhoun was dispatched to support the Guadalcanal campaign early in World War II. While unloading supplies to the island on 30 August 1942, she was attacked by aircraft of the Empire of Japan, and sunk with the loss of 51 men.