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USS Leary (DD-158)
American Wickes-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Leary (DD-158) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant Clarence F. Leary, posthumously awarded the Navy Cross in World War I.
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Name | Leary |
Namesake | Clarence F. Leary |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey |
Laid down | 6 March 1918 |
Launched | 18 December 1918 |
Commissioned | 5 December 1919 |
Decommissioned | 29 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
Fate | Sunk by U-275 in the North Atlantic, 24 December 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,090 long tons (1,107 t) |
Length | 314 ft (96 m) |
Beam | 30.5 ft (9.3 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 176 officers and enlisted |
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Commissioned in 1919, she saw a number of fleet exercises and training cruises, as well as a period of decommissioning from 1922 to 1930. With the outbreak of World War II, she escorted a number of convoys to Iceland, the Caribbean, and west Africa to support the war effort, later being upgraded to serve as an anti-submarine warfare vessel. On 24 December 1943, while escorting Card through rough seas in the North Atlantic, she was torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-275 and sank with the loss of 98 men.