| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Clemson |
| Pennant | AVD 1 |
| Mod | Sea plane tender |
| Built by | New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 19 Mar 1919 |
| Launched | 15 Sep 1920 |
| Commissioned | 22 Oct 1920 |
| End service | |
| History | Reclassified as sea plane tender AVP-14 on 1 July 1938 |
Commands listed for USS Childs (AVD 1)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Harold Foster Fick, USN | 30 Sep 1937 | 16 May 1940 (1) |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. John Lockwood Pratt, USN | 16 May 1940 | 10 Apr 1942 (1) |
| 3 | Lt.Cdr. Frank O'Beirne, USN | 10 Apr 1942 | 9 Nov 1942 |
| 4 | Thomas Aloysius Christopher, USN | 9 Nov 1942 | 10 Sep 1943 |
| 5 | Charles Daniel Ingebrand, USNR | 10 Sep 1943 | 17 Apr 1945 |
| 6 | Richard William Evans, USNR | 17 Apr 1945 | 21 Sep 1945 |
| 7 | Ted J. Welch, USNR | 21 Sep 1945 | 10 Dec 1945 |
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