USS Osborne ( DD - 295 ) USS " Osborne " ( DD - 295 ) was a in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for Weedon Osborne . Naval Service . " Osborne " was laid down 23 September 1919 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Squantum , Massachusetts ; launched 29 December 1919 ; co - sponsored by Mrs . Elizabeth Osborne Fisher , sister of Ltjg W . E . Osborne and Mrs . C . H . Cox ; and commissioned 17 May 1920 , Lieutenant Dennis L . Ryan in command . Commissioned into a peacetime navy curtailed by a retrenching Congress , the undermanned four - stacker departed Boston , Massachusetts 25 June to join DESRON 3 , Atlantic Fleet . The limited coastal operations of 1920 were supplemented by 2 months of fleet exercises and battle problems off Cuba during the first quarter of 1921 . Whether operating out of Charleston , South Carolina , her normal base of operations , or out of the Brooklyn or Philadelphia Navy Yard s " Osborne " regularly steamed southward early each year for these competitive exercises and large scale tactical maneuvers . These useful testing periods brought a familiarization not only with the Caribbean area but also the Pacific coast of Panama . Under the new command of Raymond A . Spruance , " Osborne " steamed from Boston 18 June 1925 , to " show the flag " on an extensive year long cruise in the western half of the Mediterranean Sea and along the western European coastline . On 20 September 1929 entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard for inactivation . " Osborne " decommissioned 1 May 1930 with her crew transferring to the newly recommissioned . In accordance with the agreements reached at the London Naval Disarmament Conference of 1930 , she was struck from the Navy List 22 October 1930 and sold for scrap 17 January 1931 . Commercial service . The ship was sold to Standard Fruit Company of New Orleans where she was gutted to her hull and fitted with two new deck houses , electrical plant and other ship service plants and with dual Ingersoll - Rand Diesel engines by Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company . With the new name " Matagalpa " and four holds capable of carrying a total of 25 , 000 banana stems between Central America and New Orleans the Standard Fruit & Steamship Company operated banana boat operated until the eve of World War II . The ship was surveyed and taken by the Navy under a bare boat charter until the urgent need to resupply the Philippines as Japanese forces took Manila resulted in their being taken over by the United States Army . U . S . Army service . On 22 February 1942 General MacArthur had requested direct support from Honolulu rather than Australia as it was lacking in resources . Within a day a very high level study of the situation concluded three old ex destroyers converted into fast commercial fruit carriers , now named " Masaya " , " Matagalpa " and " Teapa " , and recently taken over under bare boat charter by the War Department with intentions to use them as inter - island transports would be suited to that supply requirement . Under urgent Presidential orders to support the forces in Bataan and Corregidor the Army began to prepare the ships to run the Japanese blockade of the Philippines . Cargoes were shipped to New Orleans for the three ships . They were originally due to sail on 28 February 1942 but difficulties , including securing naval gun crews to put on the ships , delayed sailing . " Masaya " sailed on 2 March 1942 , " Matagalpa " on 11 March and " Teapa " on 18 March . While the situation in the Philippines became desperate the three ships were forced to stop in Los Angeles for repair . On 13 April General MacArthur reported blockade running was " useless , " but the War Department decided to make the attempt . The ships were reloaded with " Matagalpa " loaded for Mindanao and arriving in Honolulu on 8 May 1942 , too late to relieve Corregidor . " Matagalpa " and the other ships intended for supply of the Philippines , were diverted to Australia . Fate . On 26 June 1942 " Matagalpa " burned at her berth in Sydney , Australia as over one hundred firefighters worked to unload gasoline drums and fight the fire . " Matagalpa " was not repaired and was scuttled in the " disposal area " off Sydney on 6 September 1947 .