High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Hamilton (DD 141) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I, later reclassified DMS-18 for service in World War II. She was the first ship named for Lieutenant Archibald Hamilton.Hamilton was launched 15 January 1919 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Miss Dolly Hamilton Hawkins, great-grand-niece of Archibald Hamilton; and commissioned 7 November 1919, Lieutenant Commander R. G. Coman in command.