USS Gridley (DD-92)
Appearance
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Name | Gridley |
Namesake | Charles Vernon Gridley |
Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 1 April 1918 |
Launched | 4 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 8 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 22 June 1922 |
Stricken | 25 January 1937 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 19 April 1939 |
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Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,060 tons |
Length | 315 ft 5 in (96.1 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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The first USS Gridley (DD-92) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named in honor of Charles Vernon Gridley.
History
Gridley was launched by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California on 4 July 1918, sponsored by Mrs. Francis P. Thomas, the daughter of Captain Gridley. The destroyer was commissioned on 8 March 1919, Comdr. Frank Jack Fletcher in command.
After fitting out at the
NC-4 was successfully able to land in the dense fog at the Azores on 17 May 1919. Subsequently Gridley participated in the search for the aircraft NC-1, forced down in the fog, and then acted as guard ship on the last leg of NC-4's historic flight, which was completed at Plymouth
, England on 31 May 1919.
Gridley arrived at
Mediterranean transporting passengers and making goodwill visits. She arrived back at New York on 31 July. Operating out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Gridley embarked Major General Lejeune and Brigadier General Butler of the Marine Corps at Charleston on 2 September 1920, for an inspection tour of Caribbean bases and commands, including posts in Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
. Her passengers disembarked on 27 September 1920.
In the following years Gridley was active training officers and men of the
Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 June 1922 and remained inactive until her name was stricken from the Navy List on 25 January 1937. Gridley's hulk was sold for scrapping
on 19 April 1939.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.