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Perry (DMS 17)

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Queen - Sugar

ex-DD-340

Sunk 13 September 1944

Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 September 1920 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Launched, 29 October 1921; Commissioned USS Perry (DD-340), 7 August 1922; Decommissioned, 17 January 1923 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Recommissioned, 1 April 1930; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-17, 19 November 1940; Sunk by mine off Peleliu Island 13 September 1944; Struck from the Navy Register 23 September 1944.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 122; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow, Thornycroft, White-Forster or Normand boilers, two Mare Island Navy Yard geared turbines, 27,000shp at 35kts, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Perry (DD 340)
	158k	Perry and USS Decatur (DD 341) ready to be launched at Mare Island on October 29, 1921. U.S. Navy photo DD 340 & 341-10-1921	Darryl Baker
	229k	Perry and USS Zane (DD 337) shown at Skagway, Alaska on June 25, 1935. Courtesy of Lieutenant Raymond F. Farwell, U.S. Naval Reserve U.S. Navy photo DD 337 & DD 340-6-1935	Darryl Baker
USS Perry (DMS 17)
	145k	Perry off Mare Island on July 22, 1942.. U.S. Navy photo 4211-42	Darryl Baker
	177k	c. October 1943 Mare Island Navy Yard	.
	103k	Broadside view of Perry departing Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 November 1943. She was at the yard from 27 September to 2 November 1943 for overhaul. U.S. Navy photo 7451-43	Darryl Baker
	111k	After starboard view of Perry departing Mare Island on 2 November 1943. U.S. Navy photo 7455-43	Darryl Baker
	143k	Bow plan view of Perry departing Mare Island Navy Yard on 2 November 1943. U.S. Navy photo 7456-43	Darryl Baker

View the Perry (DMS-17)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Perry (DD-340)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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