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Maury (DM 5)
ex-DD-100

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 4 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Maury, Destroyer No. 100, 23 September 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-5, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 19 March 1930 at Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Navy Register 26 October 1930; Sold for scrap 17 January 1931 to the Boston Iron and Metal Co. of Baltimore MD.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50 mounts, two
1-pounders, one dcp and two dct; Propulsion four White-Foster boilers, two 27,000shp Bethlehem geared turbines, two shafts.

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Israel 91k c. 1921
Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
Still wearing their destroyer bow numbers with the mine force insignia painted on immediately behind, are (from left to right): USS Mahan (DM-7, formerly DD-102); USS Lansdale (DM-6, formerly DD-101); Maury; and USS Israel (DM 3, formerly DD-98).
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
Maury 141k c. 1921
Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
Still wearing her former destroyer bow number, with the mine force insignia painted on immediately abaft.
Photographed by H. J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts
U.S. Navy photo NH 103191 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center		 Barb Rebold
View the Maury (DM-5)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Maury (DD-100)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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