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USS TERRY (DD-25)

CLASS - PAULDING As Built.
Displacement 742 Tons, Dimensions, 293' 10" (oa) x 26' 11" x 10' 11" (Max)
Armament 5 x 3"/50, 3 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 3 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 86.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding on February 8 1909.
Launched August 21 1909 and commissioned October 18 1910.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia November 13 1919.
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-19 June 7 1924. Returned October 18 1930.
Stricken June 28 1934.
Fate Sold and broken up for scrap in 1934.

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-Edward Terry was born at Hartford, Connecticut on 24 January 1839. He was appointed a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy on 21 September 1853 and graduated on 10 June 1857. He served in the sloop Germantown, attached to the East India Squadron, from 1857 to 1859. By 1861, he was assigned to the steam sloop Richmond and served in her with the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron throughout the Civil War. He participated in the engagement with the Confederate ram Manassas on 12 October 1861, the artillery duel with Fort McRae and other shore batteries on 22 November, the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the capture of New Orleans in late April 1862. After New Orleans, Farragut's force moved up the Mississippi, and Terry was present when the salt water fleet ran the gauntlet at Vicksburg and joined Flag Officer C. H. Davis' riverine fleet above the Southern stronghold. In January 1863, Terry was promoted to lieutenant commander. On 14 March, his ship joined others of the fleet in bombarding the batteries surrounding Port Hudson so that Farragut could dash past them and establish a blockade cutting the Confederacy's Red River supply line. In his last major engagement, the Battle of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864, Terry helped to close the last major Conferederate port on the Gulf of Mexico. Following the Civil War, Terry alternated between sea duty and a series of shore assignments at the Naval Academy. In 1866 and 1867, he served in the Pacific Squadron in the steam frigate Powhatan. His first tour of duty at the Naval Academy followed in 1868 and 1869. He assumed his first command, Saco, in 1870 and cruised with the Asiatic Fleet until 1872. During that assignment, on 30 October 1871, he was promoted to commander. He returned to the Naval Academy in 1873 and, by 1875, was appointed Commandant of Midshipmen, a post he held until 1878. Comdr. Terry was then ordered to the Pacific Squadron as flag captain in Pensacola; first to Rear Admiral C. R. Perry Rodgers and, in 1880 and 1881, to Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens. In 1881, he went on leave due to illness. On 1 June 1882, Comdr. Terry died at Manitou Springs, Colorado.Robert M. Cieri
Terry 40kUndated, location unknown.USN
Terry 49kPhoto #: NH 43766, USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) at anchor, prior to World War I. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Terry 47kPhoto #: NH 43765, USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) in harbor with her crew standing in formation on deck, prior to World War I. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Terry 45kPhoto #: NH 99855, Destroyers at Dry Tortugas coaling station, Florida, 15 March 1914. Members of the Second Division, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla, these ships are (from left to right): USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32); USS Sterett (Destroyer # 27); and (perhaps) USS Terry (Destroyer # 25). This photo is one of a series from the collection of a USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) crewmember, which was another member of the division. Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Terry 109kU.S. Navy destroyers at Queenstown, Ireland, in 1918. Third ship from left (just inboard of the outboard destroyer) is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25). USS Melville (Destroyer Tender # 2) is in the right background. Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1982. US Naval Historical Centre Photo # NH 93723.Robert Hurst
Terry 47kPhoto #: 111-SC-43622, USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) in a British Isles port, 1918. Note her pattern camouflage. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.Paul Rebold
Terry 55kPhoto #: NH 41807, USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) photographed in 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Terry 63kPhoto #: 111-SC-43622, USS Terry (Destroyer # 25) in a British Isles port, 1918. Note her pattern camouflage. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.Daniel Dunham
Terry 24kOn Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website. Mike Green

USS TERRY DD-25 History
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Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

LCDR Martin Edward Trench    Oct 18 1910 - ?
LCDR John Charles Fremont    May 1911 - Jun 1913
LCDR Arthur Mark LeRoy (Roy) Bristol Jr.    ? 1914 - ? (Later RADM)
LCDR Aubrey Wray Fitch    Sep 1914 - Oct 1914 (Later ADM)
LCDR Ernest Joseph King    unknown (Later FADM)
LCDR John Franklin Shafroth Jr.    ? 1916 - ? (Later VADM)

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