USS Selfridge ( DD - 320 ) The first USS " Selfridge " ( DD - 320 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for Thomas O . Selfridge . History . " Selfridge " was laid down on 28 April 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , San Francisco , California ; launched on 25 July 1919 ; sponsored by Mrs . Katherine Kellond , granddaughter of Rear Admiral Selfridge ; and commissioned on 17 February 1921 , Commander A . S . Farquhar in command . " Selfridge " arrived at her home port , San Diego , California , on 16 March 1921 and remained there until June 1922 , when she proceeded to the Puget Sound area for exercises with the fleet . She returned to San Diego on 12 September for further training . On 6 February 1923 , she sailed with the Battle Fleet for the Panama Canal Zone and conducted exercises there from 26 February to 31 March before returning to San Diego on 11 April . She then underwent overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard from 30 May to 16 July and rejoined the fleet for summer exercises off Washington . On 10 September , she returned to San Pedro , having rescued en route survivors of SS " Cuba " which had been wrecked on San Miguel Island on 8 September . On 2 January 1924 , " Selfridge " departed San Diego with the Battle Fleet and participated in exercises in the Caribbean with the United States Fleet from 17 January to 6 April . Returning to San Diego on 22 April , she departed on 25 June for exercises off Puget Sound . She was overhauled at Mare Island between 5 August and 1 October and returned to San Diego on 2 October . " Selfridge " departed San Diego on 1 April 1925 with the fleet and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 27 April for exercises . Departing on 25 June , she underwent overhaul at Bremerton from 9 August to 3 October and returned to San Diego on 6 October . On 1 February 1926 , " Selfridge " sailed from San Diego with the Battle Fleet and participated in exercises off Panama before returning to San Diego on 1 April . She arrived in the Puget Sound area on 10 July 1926 and , after receiving repairs at Mare Island from 9 August to 22 September , returned to San Diego on 24 September . In February 1927 , she again sailed for the Canal Zone with the fleet and , after transiting the canal on 4 March , conducted exercises in the Caribbean until 22 April . With the fleet , she then visited New York and participated in a joint Army - Navy exercise in Narragansett Bay before arriving at Hampton Roads on 29 May for a Presidential Review . She was then assigned duty with the Special Service Squadron protecting lives and property of United States and other foreign citizens in Nicaragua and helping peacekeeping operations . She also carried out two patrols off that country , from 18 June to 2 July and 16 July to 26 July . She then proceeded to Mare Island , underwent overhaul there , and returned to San Diego on 30 September . " Selfridge " departed San Diego on 9 April 1928 and , after conducting Fleet Problem VIII with the fleet en route , arrived at Pearl Harbor on 28 April . She returned to San Diego on 23 June and , after a two - week training cruise to Honolulu , underwent overhaul at Mare Island from 26 July to 19 September . She resumed exercises at San Diego and , between 27 January and 11 March 1929 , participated in the fleet concentration off Panama . Fate . She returned to San Diego on 22 March 1929 and was decommissioned there on 8 February 1930 . " Selfridge " was struck from the Navy list on 3 November 1930 , scrapped at the Mare Island Navy Yard , and her hulk was sold on 2 September 1931 to Marine Salvage Company , Oakland , California .