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DD-99 / DM-4 Luce


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down 9 February at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 29 June 1918; Commissioned USS Luce, Destroyer No. 99, 11 September 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Redesignated Light Mine Layer (DM-4), 18 July 1920; Decommissioned 30 June 1922 at Philadelphia Pa; Laid up in the Atlantic Reseve Fleet, Philadelphia PA: Recommissioned 19 March 1930; Decommissioned 31 January 1931 at Boston Mass; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 29 September 1936 to Schievone-Bonomo corp., New York NY.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4", two 1-pdrs, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts.
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