USS Robinson (DD-88) was a in the United States Navy, later transferred to the Royal Navy, as HMS Newmarket (G47). She was the first ship named for Isaiah Robinson. She was laid down 31 October 1917 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, launched 28 March 1918, sponsored by Miss Evelyn Tingey Selfridge, and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 19 October 1918. Construction and design In 1916, the US Congress authorized a massive three-year shipbuilding program, with the aim of matching the largest navy in the world, the British Royal Navy. The program included 50 destroyers, which were to be built to a modified version of the , designed to reach rather than the of the Caldwells. As such, the new design, the , had more powerful machinery with geared steam turbines, but retained the same flush-decked layout and armament used by the Caldwells. The Wickes were built to one of two detailed designs, one design by Bethlehem Steel, used by the two Bethlehem-owned shipyards, Union Iron Works and the Fore River Shipyard, while the design by Bath Iron Works was used by all other shipyards involved in the program. Robinson was one of 20 destroyers ordered as the first stage of the construction plan, under the Fiscal year 1917 construction program. She was laid down at Union Iron Works' San Francisco yard on 31 October 1917, was launched on 28 March 1918 and commissioned at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 19 October 1918. The Bethlehem-designed ships, like Robinson, were long overall and at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . Displacement was normal and full load. Four Yarrow boilers fed steam to geared sets of steam turbines and driving two shafts The machinery was designed to give , giving a design speed of . 225 tons of oil were carried, giving a design range of at . Service history United States Navy Robinson cleared San Francisco Bay 24 October 1918 for the east coast of the United States. Transiting the Panama Canal 3 November 1918, she set course by way of Guantanamo Bay for Norfolk, Virginia where she arrived on 8 November. On 10 January 1919, Robinson put to sea from Norfolk to conduct winter training out of Guantanamo Bay, which ended at New York Harbor 14 April 1919. She then prepared for lifeguard duty supporting the first transatlantic flight