USS Satterlee (DD-190) was a in the United States Navy, entering service in 1919. After brief service until 1922, the ship was placed in reserve. The ship was reactivated for World War II before being transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940. Renamed HMS Belmont, the destroyer was used as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic where she was torpedoed and sunk on 31 January 1942. Construction The Clemson-class was a modified version of the previous (itself a faster version of the ) with more fuel, as many of the Wickes-class had poor fuel economy and hence endurance. Like the Wickes-class ships, the Clemsonss had flush-decks and four funnels and were ordered in very large numbers to meet the US Navy's need for ships to counter German U-boats as well as to operate with the fleet. Saterlee was long overall and at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . Displacement was normal and full load. Four White-Forster water-tube boilers supplied steam to two sets of Westinghouse geared steam turbines. The machinery was rated at , giving a design speed of . The ship had a designed endurance of at . Main gun armament consisted of four /50 caliber guns, with one forward and one aft on the ship's centerline, and the remaining two on the ships beam. Anti-aircraft armament consisted of two 3"/23 caliber guns, while torpedo armament consisted of twelve 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, arranged in four triple mounts on the ship's beams. Saterlee was the first ship named for Captain Charles Satterlee USCG (1875–1918), captain of the US Coast Guard cutter , who was killed when Tampa was sunk by a German submarine on 26 September 1918. The ship was laid down on 10 July 1918 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia shipyard and was launched on 21 December 1918. The ship was sponsored by Ms. Rebecca E. Satterlee, niece of the ship's namesake. The destroyer was commissioned on 23 December 1919. Service United States Navy service Satterlee joined her destroyer flotilla at Manzanillo, Cuba on 27 January 1920 and conducted training in the Caribbean until 26 April. She then carried out further trials and underwent defect rectification before rejoining her flotilla at Naval Station Newport, the naval base on Newport, Rhode Island, on 11 June. Saterlee attended that year's America's Cup yachting