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DD-247 USS GOFF

CLASS - CLEMSON As Built.
Displacement 1,215 Tons, Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt..
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 114
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York Shipbuilding on June 16 1919.
Launched June 2 1920 and commissioned January 19 1921.
Decommissioned January 13 1931 and recommissioned March 2 1932.
Decommissioned July 21 1945.
Stricken August 13 1945.
Fate Sold November 30 1945 and broken up for scrap.

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Goff 48kNathan Goff of West Virginia was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 to fill out the unexpired term of Richard W. Thompson. He was elected to the United States Senate from West Virginia in 1884 and reelected in 1886. The former Secretary of the Navy and Senator died on 23 April 1920. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.Bill Gonyo
Goff 57kUndated photos of the crew of the Goff from the collection of Barbara's father who served aboard.Barbara Guethlein
Goff 51kAs above.Barbara Guethlein
Goff 119kPhoto #: NH 57976, USS Osborne (DD-295) underway during the review of the U.S. Fleet by President Calvin Coolidge, 4 June 1927. USS Goff (DD-247) is in the right background. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Tony Cowart
Goff 48kPicture from a 1936 calendarIn memory of Gordon Kenneth Delo CMM(AA) - He served aboard the Goff from 1934 to 1939. Killed in action aboard the USS Monssen in 1942. Cheryl Caruso
Goff 160kUSS Altair (AD-11) At Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 1 October 1942. The four ships alongside are (from left to right): USS Spry (PG-64); USS Bainbridge (DD-246); USS Goff (DD-247); and Dutch minelayer/patrol vessel Jan van Brakel. Photographed from USS Pocomoke (AV-9). Note the pattern camouflage on most of these ships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Fred Weiss

USS GOFF DD-247 History
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