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Maury (DM 5)

Call sign (1924):
Nan - Easy - Pup - George

ex-DD-100

Call sign (1919):
George - Sail - Watch - Have

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer:

Laid down 4 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts

Ships Data, U.S. Naval Vessels lists keel laid 26 February 1918

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 1,191 t.

1921 - 1189 t.

Length 314' 4½"

Beam 30' 11¼"

Draft 9' 2"

Speed 34 kts.

1921 - 34.59 kts.

Complement 103

1921 - 122

Armament: Four 4"/50 mounts, two 1-pounders, one depth charge projector and two depth charge tracks

1921 - Two 1-pounders replaced by one 3"/23 mount

Propulsion: Four White-Foster boilers, two 12,100shp Parsons turbines, two shafts

1921 - Four Yarrow boilers and two 26,890shp Curtis geared turbines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Maury (DD 100)
	340k	Photo DD 100-DM5 from the collection of Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum	Darryl Baker
	358k	Nest of four destroyers alongside Shawmut (CM 4). Maury and Mahan (DD 102) are the outboard ships U.S. Navy photo M-31 DD CM-4
	295k	17 January 1919 Gibraltar Photo DD 100-17Jan19 from the collection of Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
USS Maury (DM 5)
	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
	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
	262k	Vertical aerial view, taken in 2 May 1927 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 46432	Mike Green

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR John Henry Newton, USN - USNA Class of 1905 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Rear Admiral	23 September 1918 - 1919
02	LCDR William Robinson Smith, Jr., USN	1919
03	LCDR William Walter Wilson, USN	18 December 1921 - 11 January 1922
04	CDR Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr., USN	11 January 1922 - 9 June 1924
05	LCDR Abner Moyer Steckel, USN - USNA Class of 1908 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Commander	9 June 1924
06	LCDR Samuel Robert Shumaker, USN - USNA Class of 1915 Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (Posthumously) (1943) and the Legion of Merit (Posthumously) (1944)	1 September 1927 - 1928
07	CDR James Blair Glennon, USN - Awarded the Legion of Merit (1945)	1928
08	LT Allen Hobbs, USN	1929 - 19 March 1930

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves, Bill Gonyo and Joe Radigan

View the Maury (DM-5)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Maury (DD-100)
Association of Minemen

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