USS Murray (DD-97)

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Laid down: 22 December 1917
Launched: 8 June 1918
Commissioned: 21 August 1918
Reclassified: 17 July 1920
Decommissioned: 1 July 1922
Fate: Sold for scrap, 29 September 1936
Struck: 7 January 1936
General Characteristics
Displacement: 1191 tons
Length: 314,5 ft
Beam: 31,9 ft
Draught: 9,2 ft
Propulsion:
Speed: 35 knots
Complement: 113 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 4", 2 1-pdr., 12 21" tt.

The second USS Murray (DD-97) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Alexander Murray and Captain Murray's grandson, Alexander Murray.

Murray was laid down 22 December 1917 by Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 8 June 1918; sponsored by Miss Alice S. Guthrie; and commissioned at Boston 21 August 1918, Lieutenant Commander R. G. Walling in command.

During her 4 years of operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the Atlantic Fleet, Murray aided in postwar development of antisubmarine and mine warfare techniques. She was reclassified to a light minelayer (DM-2) 17 July 1920, and received alternations necessary to her new role. She decommissioned at Philadelphia 1 July 1922, and lay there in reserve until stricken from the Navy list 7 January 1936. She was sold for scrapping 29 September 1936 to Schiavone-Bonomo Corporation, New York City.

See USS Murray for other ships of this name.

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.


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