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Luce (DM 4)
ex-DD-99
ex-Schley
Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Originally planned as Schley; Named changed to Luce 4 December 1917; Laid down 9 February 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass; Launched 29 June 1918; Commissioned USS Luce, Destroyer No. 99, 11 September 1918 at the Boston Navy Yard; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-4, 18 July 1920; Decommissioned 30 June 1922 at Philadelphia, Pa; Laid up in the Atlantic Reseve Fleet, Philadelphia: Recommissioned 19 March 1930; Decommissioned 31 January 1931 at Boston, Mass; Struck from the Navy Register 7 January 1936; Sold 29 September 1936 to Schievone-Bonomo Corp. of New York, NY; Scrapped 13 November 1936.
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 27,000shp Bethlehem geared turbines, two shafts.
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c. 1921
Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
The ship still wears her former destroyer bow number, but has had her torpedo tubes removed and replaced with mine tracks runnibg along each side to the stern from just aft of Number Four Smoke Stack.
Photographed by H. J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts
U.S. Navy photo NH 103189 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center |
Barb Rebold |
View the Luce (DM-4)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Luce (DD-99)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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