USS Yarborough ( DD - 314 ) USS " Yarborough " ( DD - 314 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy . She was named for George Hampton Yarborough , Jr . History . " Yarborough " was laid down on 27 February 1919 at San Francisco , California , by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation ' s Union Iron Works plant ; launched on 20 June 1919 ; sponsored by Miss Kate Burch , the fiancee of the late Lt . Yarborough ; designated DD - 314 on 17 July 1920 ; and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard , Vallejo , California , on 31 December 1920 , Lieutenant Commander Charles E . Rosendahl — later the Navy ' s pre - eminent authority on airship s — in command . Following commissioning , " Yarborough " was fitted out at Mare Island into late January 1921 and departed the yard on the 25th , bound for Port Richmond , California , where she fueled . After trials in San Francisco Bay , Monterey Bay , and San Pedro Bay , the new destroyer tied up at the Reserve Dock at San Diego , California , on 2 February . Outside of a trip to San Pedro with liberty parties embarked , the ship remained pierside through mid - April . One event was noteworthy during the ship ' s largely port - bound routine in 1921 . She embarked Marine detachments from the cruiser s and , both units under the command of 1st Lt . J . K . Martensteen , USMC , and transported them to Santa Catalina Island on 18 April . Underway from San Diego at 0615 on the 18th , she stood into Isthmus Cove , Santa Catalina Island at 1145 , anchoring at 1205 . After landing the marines , she got underway and hove to briefly to embark a passenger - Capt . Franck T . Evans , the chief of staff to Commander , Destroyer Force , Pacific Fleet and the son of the famous admiral Robley D . ( " Fighting Bob " ) Evans - before she resumed her passage . Unfortunately , " Yarborough " collided with a buoy at the entrance to San Pedro harbor - an embarrassing occurrence in view of the ship ' s high - ranking passenger . Fortunately , the ship sustained only minor damage to a propeller blade , and no disciplinary action was taken . " Yarborough " remained alongside the Santa Fe dock at San Diego until 30 June , when she headed for the Mare Island Navy Yard . After a drydocking , the destroyer ran trials off the southern California coast , during which she shipped heavy seas over the forecastle that caused some damage to her bridge on 11 July . Visiting San Francisco briefly , the destroyer returned to San Diego on the 13th , where she remained into mid - October . " Yarborough " subsequently ran gunnery exercises and drills in company with her sistership late in October , after receiving on board a large draft of men from . " Yarborough " apparently joined the operating segment of the " rotating reserves " at that point because the rest of her career was largely one of operational activity . She spent the majority of 1922 operating from San Diego , touching at ports in the Pacific Northwest like Port Angeles and Seattle , Washington , and familiar California ports like San Diego and San Pedro . Upon occasion , she operated with the battleship forces and conducted drills and exercises in antisubmarine screening , torpedo firings , and , of course , the staple , gunnery . The following year , however , " Yarborough " began her voyages beyond what had become the usual west coast routine . After maneuvers out of San Pedro with the Battle Fleet , " Yarborough " departed that port on 9 February 1923 , bound for Magdalena Bay , Mexico . Arriving there on the 6th , in company with Destroyer Squadrons 11 and 12 and the destroyer tender , she was underway again two days later this time bound for Panama . In the succeeding days that February , " Yarborough " took part in the first of the large United States Fleet exercises - Fleet Problem I . Staged off the coast of Panama , Fleet Problem I pitted the Battle Fleet against an augmented Scouting Fleet . " Yarborough " screened the Battle Fleet ' s dreadnoughts , often serving as a picket in a special defensive screen arrangement ahead of the heavy units . The exercise continued into March ; and , during a lull in the maneuvers , Secretary of the Navy Edwin C . Denby , embarked in , reviewed the assembled forces on 14 March . After further exercises , " Yarborough " departed the Panama area on 31 March as part of the screen for the northward - bound battleships . She arrived at San Diego on 11 April . For the remainder of the year , her schedule remained routine , operations within the vicinity of San Diego , San Francisco , or San Pedro , with a period under repairs at Mare Island and dry - docked on a marine railway at San Diego . On 2 January 1924 , " Yarborough " got underway for Panama to participate in the next series of fleet exercises - Fleet Problems II , III , and IV - conducted concurrently . Problem II simulated the first leg of a westward advance across the Pacific ; Problem III tested the Caribbean defenses and the transit facilities of the Panama Canal ; and Problem IV simulated the movement from a main base in the western Pacific to the Japanese home islands — represented in that case by islands , cities , and countries surrounding the Caribbean . " Yarborough ' s " role in the maneuvers was similar to those she had performed before . However , there was one exception because , during one phase of the exercises , she operated with — the Navy ' s first aircraft carrier . She screened Langley on 25 January and witnessed an air attack upon the ship by planes of the " black " fleet . The destroyer also performed those tasks for which she had been designed ( torpedo attacks and screening maneuvers ) both with and against battleships . " Yarborough " and her sister - ships participated in the intensive exercises through late February , after which the destroyer paid a brief call upon New Orleans , Louisiana , her only visit ever to that port , between 1 March and 11 March . After further exercises off Puerto Rico , " Yarborough " headed for home ; transited the Panama Canal on 8 April ; and arrived at San Diego on the 22d . For the remainder of the year , she operated in and around her home port . The Scouting Fleet once more " battled " the Battle Fleet in March 1925 , in Fleet Problem V , off the coast of Baja California . After that series of exercises which trained the Fleet in protective screening , seizing and occupying an unfortified anchorage , fueling at sea , and conducting submarine attacks , the Fleet set its course westward . " Yarborough " departed San Francisco as part of this movement on 15 April 1925 . Her log noted : " underway in company with the United States Fleet to engage in joint Army and Navy Problem No . 3 and proceed to the Hawaiian Islands . " Screening Battleship Division 5 , as a unit of Destroyer Division 34 , she proceeded via Mamala Bay , Oahu , and arrived at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , on 28 April . When the Fleet later concentrated in Lahaina Roads , Maui , " Yarborough " served a brief tour as guardship , patrolling off the entrance to the Fleet anchorage . During subsequent maneuvers out of Lahaina , " Yarborough " and her mates performed as " Cruiser Division 1 " for the sake of the exercise , acting in that guise from 19 May to 29 May , before returning to Pearl Harbor for upkeep . After visiting Hilo , " Yarborough " departed Pearl Harbor on 1 July 1925 , bound for the South Pacific as part of the Fleet ' s Australian cruise . " Yarborough " subsequently visited Pago Pago , Samoa , from 10 July to 11 July ; Melbourne , Australia , from 23 July to 30 July ; Lyttelton , New Zealand , from 11 August to 21 August ; and Wellington , New Zealand , from 22 August to 24 August . Returning via Pago Pago , " Yarborough " and her division mates were pressed into service on 7 September as part of the dragnet searching for the downed PN - 9 No . 1 - a flying boat which attempted to make a flight from the west coast to Hawaii . Destroyer Division 34 ' s ships steamed at eight - mile ( 13 km ) intervals in a scouting line and searched over the next three days before word reached them that PN - 9 No . 1 had been found , her crew having stripped the plane ' s lower wings and used the fabric to rig a sail that had taken them close to Oahu . " Yarborough " eventually returned via Pearl Harbor to San Diego on 19 September and remained in the vicinity of her home port for the remainder of 1925 . Early the following year , 1926 , she took part in Fleet Problem VI , off the west coast of Central America , operating with the Battle Fleet and its train convoy against the " enemy " forces as represented by the Scouting Fleet and Control Force . " Yarborough " later visited Port Aberdeen , Port Angeles , Washington , and the Puget Sound Navy Yard before she rounded out the year operating locally from San Diego . The year 1927 proved to be a busy one for " Yarborough " , one that she began , as usual , at San Diego . Departing that port on 17 February , the destroyer transited the Panama Canal on 5 March , Atlantic - bound . The loss of the German steamship , however , forced a change in plans . " Yarborough " re - transited the canal four days later , on 9 March , and headed for the Galápagos Islands in company with the rest of Destroyer Division 34 . Forming a scouting line , the flush - deckers combed the seas for survivors of the " Albatross " . During the search , " Yarborough " often operated in sight of her sisterships and but found nothing . Abandoning the search on the 13th , the ship retransmitted the canal and rejoined the Fleet . Participating in Fleet Problem VII later that month , " Yarborough " operated off Gonaïves , Haiti , and visited Staten Island and New York late in May and early in June . While in the New York area , the destroyer participated in the presidential review , when President Calvin Coolidge inspected the Fleet from the decks of his presidential yacht , " Mayflower " , on 4 June . " Yarborough " subsequently headed for Panama , arriving at Colon on 9 June . She shifted to Puerto Cabezas , Nicaragua , soon thereafter , due to an outbreak of unrest there . She joined and in guarding American interests in that port before heading back to Colon , retransiting the Panama Canal , and undergoing a drydocking at Balboa . She returned to Puerto Cabezas on 9 July and found and " Shirk " in port . " Yarborough " remained at Puerto Cabezas into early August , drilling her landing force in light marching order early in the deployment to be ready for any emergency . The destroyer sailed for the Panama Canal on 5 August , transited the canal on the 7th , and arrived at San Diego on the 23rd . She exercised out of San Diego and off San Clemente Island for the rest of 1927 . The following spring , " Yarborough " again operated in Hawaiian waters , taking part in Fleet Problem VIII which was staged between San Francisco and Honolulu . Returning to the west coast upon completion of that group of maneuvers , the destroyer continued her regular schedule of operations in tactics and gunnery out of Port Angeles , San Diego , and San Pedro . " Yarborough " participated in her final large - scale maneuvers in January 1929 , operating between San Diego and the westward side of the Panama Canal Zone , in Fleet Problem IX . That problem - significant in that the new aircraft carrier participated in the Fleet ' s war games for the first time - pitted the Battle Fleet ( less submarines and " Lexington " ) against a combination of forces including the Scouting Force ( augmented by " Lexington " ) , the Control Forces , Train Squadron 1 , and 15th Naval District and local Army defense forces . The scenario studied the effects of an attack upon the Panama Canal and conducted the operations necessary to carry out such an eventuality . As before , " Yarborough ' s " role was with the Battle Fleet , screening the dreadnoughts of the battle line . After alternating periods in port and operating locally , " Yarborough " was moored at the Destroyer Base at San Diego that autumn and prepared for decommissioning . Simultaneously , she participated in the reactivation of ships that had been in reserve during the past few years . Two of those ships were and . Fate . " Yarborough " was decommissioned on 29 May 1930 ; and , on 3 November 1930 , her name was struck from the Navy List . Scrapped on 20 December of the same year , her remains were sold as scrap metal on 25 February 1932 . As of 2005 , no other ships have been named " Yarborough " .