USS Breck (DD-283) [SEP] vessel class
USS Breck (DD-283)
USS "Breck" (DD-283) was a "Clemson"-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Joseph Berry Breck.
History.
"Breck" was launched 5 September 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts, sponsored by Mrs. Forest MacNee, granddaughter of Lieutenant Commander Breck; and commissioned 1 December 1919, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Van Hook in command.
Breck served with the Atlantic Fleet, attached to Destroyer Squadron 1 and for six months
years in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1936, sold in June, and scrapped in August.
Ships in class USS "Jacob Jones" (DD-61).
USS "Jacob Jones" (DD-61) was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey, in August 1914 and launched in May of the following year. She was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of Jacob Jones.
After her February 1916 commissioning, "Jacob