USS Maddox (DD-168)

HMS Georgetown
History
United States
Name	USS Maddox
Namesake	William A. T. Maddox
Builder	Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down	20 July 1918
Launched	27 October 1918
Commissioned	10 March 1919
Decommissioned	14 June 1922
Recommissioned	17 June 1940
Decommissioned	23 September 1940
Stricken	8 January 1941
Identification	DD-168
Fate	Transferred to UK, 23 September 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Georgetown
Commissioned	23 September 1940
Identification	Pennant number: I40
Fate	Transferred to Canada September 1942; returned by Canada December 1943; transferred to USSR 10 August 1944
Canada
Name	Georgetown
Commissioned	September 1942
Fate	Returned to United Kingdom December 1943
Soviet Union
Name	Doblestny ("Valiant") or Zhyostky ("Rigid")
Acquired	10 August 1944
Fate	Returned to UK, 4 February 1949 for scrapping, 16 September 1952
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,060 tons
Length	314 ft 5 in (95.83 m)
Beam	31 ft 8 in (9.65 m)
Draft	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Speed	35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	101 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 x 4"/50 caliber guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 12 x 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Maddox (DD–168) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Georgetown (I40), to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Georgetown, and then to the Soviet Navy as Doblestny (or Zhyostky; sources vary). She was the last "four piper" destroyer to be scrapped.