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DD-340 / DMS-17 Perry


Clemson Class Destroyer: 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, CA; Recommissioned, 1 April 1930; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-17, 19 November 1940; Sunk by mine off Peleliu Islands, 12 September 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 September 1944. Perry received six battle stars for World War II service.

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 geared turbines, 27,000SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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