USS Haraden ( DD - 183 ) The first USS " Haraden " ( DD – 183 ) was a " Wickes " class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS " Columbia " , as a Town - class destroyer . History . Named for Jonathan Haraden , she was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company , Newport News , Virginia , 4 July 1918 ; sponsored by Miss Mabel B . Stephens , great - niece of Captain Jonathan Haraden ; and commissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard 7 June 1919 , to Lieutenant Commander R . H . Booth in command . " Haraden " was assigned to U . S . Naval Forces in European Waters ; after calling at Newport for supplies she departed New York 30 June 1919 for duty in the Adriatic Sea . She arrived Split , ( then Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes , now Croatia ) , 28 July 1919 and conducted operations from that port assisting the naval force in the execution of the terms of the Austrian armistice , serving as station ship at Trieste and Rijeka , and participating in maneuvers . This duty occupied her until 23 October 1919 , when she departed for Norfolk , Virginia , arriving 18 November . The destroyer departed Norfolk 7 April 1920 for Charleston , South Carolina , and operated with reserve destroyer divisions out of Charleston - until 15 March 1921 . After an extensive overhaul at New York , ending 2 May , " Haraden " sailed for Newport and training operations off New England . She returned to Charleston 12 October 1921 and to Philadelphia 10 April 1922 . " Haraden " decommissioned 17 July 1922 . With the mounting tensions in 1939 , " Haraden " was called back to active service and recommissioned at Philadelphia 4 December 1939 . After shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , the destroyer performed neutrality patrol in Cuban waters briefly and then returned to Newport , 6 March 1940 . She subsequently conducted neutrality patrol in waters off Block Island and Nantucket Shoals , and made three training cruises in Chesapeake Bay . Arriving Boston Navy Yard 7 September 1940 , " Haraden " was one of the fifty over - age destroyers to be sent to the United Kingdom in exchange for bases . She sailed 18 September for Halifax , Nova Scotia , and decommissioned there for transfer to the British 24 September 1940 . Her name was struck from the Navy List 8 January 1941 . As HMCS " Columbia " . Assigned to Canada and renamed HMCS " Columbia " following the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers ( but with deference to the U . S . origin ) , after the Columbia River originating in British Columbia and flowing into Washington and thence along the Oregon border . " Columbia " first underwent refit and then was assigned to convoy duties in the Atlantic . Her first major action began 15 October 1941 when she joined convoy SC - 8 , already under submarine attack . " Columbia " , and the other escorts fought valiantly , but nine merchantmen from the convoy were sunk before reaching England . After the U . S . ' s entry into the war " Columbia " was reassigned to convoy ships from New York to St . Johns , Newfoundland , the first leg of the transatlantic journey . She escorted convoys and performed anti - submarine patrol until 25 February 1944 , when she struck a cliff in foul weather off the coast of Newfoundland . Columbia was not fully repaired after the accident but made watertight and used as a fuel and ammunition hulk in Nova Scotia until her return to the War Assets Administration for disposal in August 1945 when she was sold for scrapping .