USS Craven (DD-70), later renamed USS Conway (DD-70), a , was in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1922 and briefly in 1940, and later in the Royal Navy as HMS Lewes from 1940 to 1945. Construction The second US Navy ship named for Commander Tunis Craven (1813–1864), Craven was laid down at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 20 November 1917 and was launched on 29 June 1918, sponsored by Mrs. F. Learned, daughter of Commander Craven. Craven commissioned on 19 October 1918. Technical characteristics Craven was long overall and at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . Displacement was normal and full load. Four Thornycroft boilers fed Parsons geared steam turbines rated at and drove two propeller shafts, giving a design speed of . Four funnels were fitted. Craven reached a speed of during sea trials. 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. After her transfer to the Royal Navy in 1940, the ship was re-armed, with two single 2-pounder autocannon replacing the forward 4-inch gun, while the remaining three 4-inch guns were replaced by single American 3"/50 caliber guns, on the ship's beams and aft, while two 20 mm cannon were fitted. All torpedo tubes were removed, while a relatively small depth charge outfit of twenty charges was fitted, in accordance with the ship's employment on convoy duties along the east coast of Great Britain, where the principal danger was enemy aircraft. A QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun was later fitted forward, with the two 2-pounder guns moved to the ship's beam, replacing the beam 3-inch guns. Service history United States Navy Craven cruised along the United States East Coast and in the Caribbean in training, maneuvers, and torpedo practice, until 3 May 1919 when she sailed from New York for Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland. Here she served on a weather station and observed the flight of Navy seaplanes in the historic first aerial crossing of the Atlantic. After overhaul, Craven participated in Army gun tests at Fort Story, Virginia, and had recruiting duty at Hampton Roads, Virginia; Fall River, Massachusetts,