USS Harding (DD-91)

USS Harding as a seaplane tender at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1920–1921
History
United States
Name	Harding
Namesake	Seth Harding
Builder	Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
Laid down	12 February 1918
Launched	4 July 1918
Commissioned	24 January 1919
Decommissioned	1 July 1922
Stricken	7 January 1936
Fate	Sold for scrap, 8 September 1936
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,060 long tons (1,080 t)
Length	315 ft 5 in (96.1 m)
Beam	31 ft 8 in (9.7 m)
Draft	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 guns 3 × .30 cal (7.62 mm) machine guns 12 x 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Harding (DD-91) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was the first ship named in honor of Seth Harding.

Launched in 1918, she undertook training exercises off the East Coast of the United States sporadically for several years. In 1919, she escorted a major transatlantic flight of Curtiss NC seaplane. Later that year, she was selected to be converted into a seaplane tender, and was then used to support naval aviator training off Naval Air Station Pensacola. She took one trip to Veracruz with emergency medical supplies, and was also on hand during aircraft bombing tests against decommissioned German ships, including the sinking of SMS Ostfriesland. She was decommissioned in 1922 and sold for scrapping in 1936.