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{{Short description|Wickes-class destroyer}}
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|Ship caption= USS ''Israel'' at [[Split (city)|Split]], Yugoslavia
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=''Israel''
|Ship namesake=Joseph Israel
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|Ship builder=[[Fore River Shipyard]], [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]
|Ship laid down=26 January 1918
|Ship launched=22 June 1918
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|Ship commissioned=13 September 1918
|Ship reclassified=17 July 1920, DM-3
|Ship decommissioned=7 July 1922
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer}}
|Ship displacement=1,060&nbsp;tons
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|Ship complement=113 officers and enlisted
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* 12 × [[American 21-inch torpedo|{{convert|21|in|mm|abbr=on|0}}]] [[torpedo tube]]s
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The first '''USS ''Israel'' (DD-98)''' was a {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer}} in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War I]] and the years following.

==Namesake==
Joseph Israel was born c. 1780. He entered the Navy as [[Midshipman]] on 15 January 1801. He served on {{USS|Maryland|1799|6}} during the [[Quasi-War]] with [[French First Republic|France]] and on {{USS|Chesapeake|1799|6}}, {{USS|New York|1800|6}} and {{USS|Constitution||6}} during the [[First Barbary War]]. Midshipman Israel was killed 4 September 1804 when [[ketch]] {{USS|Intrepid|1798|6}} exploded in the harbor of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] during the night effort to destroy the enemy shipping led by Lieutenant [[Richard Somers]].

A monument to the memory of Israel and his fellow officers and men stands on the grounds of the [[United States Naval Academy]] at [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]]. Israel was reported to be of the [[Jewish]] faith, although "there was no evidence that Israel is a Jew or of Jewish ancestry."<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Rader Marcus|title=United States Jewry, 1776-1985|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1989|page=103}}</ref>

==History==
''Israel'' was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 22 June 1918 by the [[Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], [[Ship sponsor|sponsored]] by Miss Dorothy Brown. The destroyer was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 13 September 1918.

Following [[Shakedown cruise|shakedown]] out of [[Boston]], ''Israel'' rendezvoused with the [[battleship]] {{USS|South Carolina|BB-26|2}} at [[Newport, Rhode Island]] on 24 September 1918, and performed escort duty on the [[United States East Coast|East Coast]] as a unit of the Destroyer Force, [[U.S. Atlantic Fleet|Atlantic Fleet]]. She departed [[New York, New York|New York]] on 13 October with a [[convoy]], and arrived at [[Gibraltar]] on 6 November, via the [[Azores]] and [[Port Leixoes]], [[Portugal]]. Having escorted the [[Brazil]]ian Detachment to Gibraltar Harbour on 9 November, ''Israel'' arrived at [[Venice]] on 18 November and joined the Eastern Mediterranean Forces. On 1 April 1919, she was in Spalato, now Split, with {{USS|Olympia|C-6|2}} and {{USS|Lansdale|DD-101|2}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Cardiff.htm|title=HMS Cardiff, light cruiser – British warships of World War 1}}</ref> She operated out of Venice and [[Split (city)|Split]] as a station ship transporting supplies and personnel until 12 July 1919 when she departed [[Villefranche-sur-Mer|Villefranche]], France, via Gibraltar and the Azores, arriving at Boston on 24 July.

While undergoing [[wikt:overhaul|overhaul]] at the [[Portsmouth Navy Yard]], ''Israel'' was fitted out as a light [[minelayer]] and her classification changed 17 July 1920 to DM-3.

Sailing from [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]] on 4 March 1921, ''Israel'' cruised along the East Coast until 5 July when she joined Mine Squadron 1, Atlantic Fleet, at [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]]. During the remainder of the year she engaged in mining practice and [[Military exercise|exercises]] on the East Coast; and from January to April 1922, participated in fleet exercises based at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo Bay]], Cuba and [[Culebra, Puerto Rico|Culebra]], [[Puerto Rico]].

''Israel'' arrived in [[Philadelphia]] 15 May 1922 and decommissioned there 7 July. Remaining inactive during the following years, she was reduced to a [[Hulk (ship type)|hulk]] in 1936 in accordance with the [[London Naval Treaty|London Treaty]]. Her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy List]] on 25 January 1937, and she was sold to the Union Shipbuilding Company, [[Baltimore]], Maryland for [[Ship breaking|scrap]] on 18 April 1939.

==References==
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{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/i/israel.html}}

==External links==
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/098.htm NavSource Photos]

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