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Murray (DM 2)
ex-DD-97
Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 22 December 1917 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 8 June 1918; Commissioned USS Murray, Destroyer No. 97, 21 August 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Redesignated a Light Minelayer, DM-2, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 1 July 1922 at Philadelphia, PA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia; Struck from the Naval Register 7 January 1936; Sold for scrapping 29 September 1936 to Schievone-Bonomo Corp., New York, NY.
Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4", two 1-pounders, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons turbines, 27,000 SHP at 35kts.
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray and Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Murray (DD-97)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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