High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radford was launched on 5 April 1918 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Ms. Mary Lovell Radford; and commissioned on 30 September 1918 at Norfolk Navy Yard, Lieutenant Commander Arthur S. Carpenter in command. Assigned to the Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, Radford departed Norfolk on 12 October on a shakedown cruise to Melville, Rhode Island. She returned to Hampton Roads on 21 October to join the escort force for the Newport News section of Troop Convoy 76 bound for New York and European waters.

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