USS Sinclair ( DD - 275 ) USS " Sinclair " ( DD - 275 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy . She was named for Captain Arthur Sinclair . History . " Sinclair " was laid down on 15 October 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Squantum , Massachusetts ; launched on 2 June 1919 ; sponsored by Mrs . George Barnett , granddaughter of Capt . Sinclair ; and commissioned on 8 October 1919 , Lt . Cmdr . C . S . Roberts in command . After shakedown , " Sinclair " departed Newport , Rhode Island on 17 January 1920 for the Caribbean . Between 7 February and 25 February 1920 , she patrolled off the coasts of Honduras and Guatemala during political unrest in those countries . From 13 March to 18 March , she assisted in efforts to salvage the submarine , H - l , aground off Santa Margarita Island , California . She then joined the Pacific Fleet for operations off San Diego , California . On 9 July 1920 , " Sinclair " embarked the Secretary of the Navy and Commander in Chief , United States Pacific Fleet , at Seattle , Washington , and carried them on a tour of ports in Alaska and British Columbia . The Secretary of the Navy transferred to on 18 July , and the Commander in Chief to upon returning to Puget Sound on 12 August . " Sinclair " then resumed operations off San Diego until decommissioned and placed in reserve there on 25 May 1920 . On 27 September 1923 , " Sinclair " was recommissioned as a replacement for one of the seven destroyers wrecked on Point Honda on 8 September 1923 . After shakedown at San Diego , she sailed south with the Battle Fleet in January 1924 , transited the Panama Canal on the 17th , and participated in exercises during the fleet concentration in the Caribbean from 25 January to 5 April . After returning to San Diego on 22 April , she underwent overhaul at Puget Sound from 3 May to 13 June and , after a brief visit to San Diego , rejoined the fleet in the Puget Sound area for a summer exercise . She operated at San Diego from 1 October 1924 to 3 April 1925 , was overhauled at Puget Sound from 12 April to 19 June , and rejoined the fleet at Pearl Harbor on 27 June . On 1 July 1925 , " Sinclair " sailed from Hawaii with the Battle Fleet on a goodwill visit to the Southwest Pacific , and visited Melbourne , Australia ; Auckland and Wellington , New Zealand ; and American Samoa before returning to San Diego on 26 September . She departed San Diego on 1 February 1926 for fleet exercises off the Canal Zone , returning on 6 March . From 15 March to 30 April , she received repairs at Bremerton ; and , on 21 June , departed San Diego with the Battle Fleet for summer exercises off Puget Sound , which lasted until 1 September . Again departing San Diego with the Battle Fleet on 17 February 1927 , " Sinclair " transited the Panama Canal on 4 March and participated in exercises in the Caribbean until 13 April . On 24 April , she returned to San Diego and then proceeded to Bremerton , Washington for repairs which lasted from 4 May to 28 June 1927 . She spent the summer training reserves in the Puget Sound area and returned to San Diego on 9 September . " Sinclair " underwent overhaul at Puget Sound from 26 March to 9 May 1928 and rejoined the fleet at Pearl Harbor on 16 May for exercises . Returning to San Diego on 23 June , she sailed on 5 July for summer exercises in the north , lasting to 18 August . From 1 September 1928 to 15 January 1929 , she operated off San Diego ; and , from 27 January to 21 February , she participated in Fleet Problem IX off Panama . She commenced overhaul at Puget Sound on 17 March 1929 but was ordered decommissioned instead . After returning to San Diego on 8 April 1929 , she was decommissioned there on 1 June 1929 . Fate . On 22 November 1930 , " Sinclair " was renamed " Light Target " ( IX - 37 ) . Due to faulty boilers , however , her conversion to a target ship was cancelled , and she was replaced by . She recovered her original name on 24 April 1931 and her destroyer designation on 11 August 1931 . " Sinclair " was struck from the Navy list on 5 June 1935 and sold on 30 August 1935 to Learner and Rosenthal , Oakland , California , for scrapping . As of 2005 , no other ship have been named " Sinclair " .