USS Patterson ( DD - 36 ) The first USS " Patterson " ( DD - 36 ) was a modified in the United States Navy during World War I and later in the United States Coast Guard , designated as CG - 16 . She was named for Daniel Patterson . " Patterson " was laid down on 29 March 1910 by William Cramp and Sons , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; launched on 29 April 1911 ; sponsored by Miss Georgeanne Pollock Patterson ; and commissioned on 11 October 1911 , Lieutenant Commander John M . Luby in command . Pre - World War I . " Patterson " departed Philadelphia on 23 October 1911 , calling at Newport , Rhode Island , and New York , before arriving at Boston , Massachusetts on 2 November , her homeport for operations off the New England Coast , the Virginia Capes , and south to Charleston , South Carolina , Pensacola , Florida , and Guantánamo Bay , Cuba . She arrived off Vera Cruz from Pensacola on 20 May 1914 and headed home four days later . World War I . As America entered World War I , " Patterson " patrolled along the New England Coast in the approaches to Newport and Boston to safeguard inbound trans - Atlantic convoys . One patrol mission took her as far north as St . Johns , Newfoundland . The first United States help to the hard - pressed allies was the assignment of US destroyers to the British Fleet to help combat enemy submarine s that threatened to cut the sea lifelines to the British Isles . " Patterson " was the flagship of the second division of destroyers to cross the Atlantic on this mission . But the destroyers could not make it across the North Atlantic without refueling . Newly commissioned fleet oiler , whose executive officer and chief engineer was Lieutenant Chester W . Nimitz , stationed herself in mid - Atlantic , between Boston and Queenstown , Ireland . " Patterson " led Division 5 out of Boston Harbor on 21 May 1917 and made rendezvous with " Maumee " the morning of 28 May . She was the first destroyer to maneuver alongside " Maumee " to receive fuel oil enabling her to complete the Atlantic crossing . The division arrived Queenstown , Ireland , on 1 June 1917 . There " Patterson " and her sister destroyers received British signal books and depth charges . " Patterson " began patrol and escort in the approaches to Queenstown on 5 June . On 12 June , she dropped depth charges to help drive away a German U - boat attacking SS " Indian " . A collision with His Majesty ' s tug " Dreadful " at the entrance to Berehaven Harbour , Ireland , the night of 1 January 1918 , damaged " Patterson ' s " bow but she resumed regular escort and patrol on 5 February . Two days later she rescued 12 survivors of steamship " Mexico City " , torpedoed by a German submarine . " Patterson " , patrolling in the Irish Sea on 17 May , dropped depth charges that drove away German . She continued patrol out of Queenstown until 4 June , then departed for the United States . On 16 June , one day out of Bermuda , she rescued survivors of the Norwegian bark " Kringsjaa " , sunk by German . She landed the survivors at the Cape May Naval Station and continued on to the Philadelphia Navy Yard , arriving on 18 June for overhaul . She departed Norfolk , Virginia on 17 August for Tompkinsville , New York . There she joined the escort of battleship bound for Norfolk . On 22 August , she got underway from that base as flagship of the “ " Patterson " Group ” , a special hunting squadron that included 11 submarine chasers . The " Patterson " Group hunted U - boats north from the Virginia Capes to New York . When cargoman " Felix Taussig " mistook submarine chaser for an enemy submarine and opened fire on 27 August , " Patterson " helped rescue the survivors and carried seven of the injured into New York Harbor for transfer to US Navy hospital ship . She dropped depth charges to drive away a German U - boat on 3 September , continuing hunter - killer patrols along the eastern seaboard until the special hunting group disbanded on 23 November . Inter - war period . " Patterson " entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 1 January 1919 , remaining there until she was transferred to the US Coast Guard on 28 April 1924 . She was stationed at Stapleton , New York and part of the Rum Patrol . Returned to the Navy on 18 October 1930 , she remained inactive until her name was cancelled on 1 July 1933 to permit its assignment to a newly authorized destroyer . Her hulk was sold for scrapping on 2 May 1934 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty . She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 June .