USS Wood (DD-317)

History
United States
Namesake	William Maxwell Wood
Builder	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco
Laid down	23 January 1919
Launched	28 May 1919
Commissioned	28 January 1921
Decommissioned	31 March 1930
Stricken	22 July 1930
Fate	Sold for scrap, 14 November 1930
General characteristics
Class and type	Clemson-class destroyer
Displacement	1,215 tons
Length	314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m)
Beam	31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m)
Draft	9 feet 10 inches (3.00 m)
Propulsion	26,500 shp (20 MW);; geared turbines,; 2 screws;
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range	4,900 nmi (9,100 km); @ 15-knot (28 km/h);
Complement	130 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 guns,; 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/25 gun,; 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) tt.;

USS Wood (DD-317) was a

Clemson-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy

from 1921 to 1930. She was scrapped in 1931.

History

Wood was the first Navy ship named for Navy Surgeon-General

Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California

, on 28 January 1921.

Following commissioning, Wood underwent her trials before mooring at the Santa Fe docks,

San Diego, California, where she remained as part of the "rotating reserve" into the summer of 1921. The new destroyer then spent the ensuing months, into the late spring of 1922, operating off the coast of southern California on drills and exercises, off the port of San Pedro, and the Coronado Islands

.

At the end of that period of activity in June 1922, Wood shifted northward and reached

Seattle

before departing Port Angeles on 2 September, bound for Mare Island.

After taking on board ammunition at Mare Island on 5 September and 6 September, Wood put to sea, bound for

San Diego, California

, for a machinery overhaul. Upon completion of those repairs, the destroyer rejoined the fleet for rehearsals for short range battle practices. She then operated on various trials into November.

Over the next nine and a half years, Wood operated with the

Fleet Problems I through IX — the large scale fleet exercises that were held once a year (except in 1924, when three were held) involving most of the Fleet's active units. During the course of those maneuvers, she ranged from the Caribbean to the Panama Canal and from Hawaii to the coast of Central America. She also ventured as far north as the coast of Alaska

.

A highlight of Wood's service in the autumn of 1925 was the cruise with the fleet to

Fleet Problem VII, Wood participated in the search for survivors from the lost German steamship Albatros and later that same year, from 27 June to 16 July, Wood supported American peace-keeping forces ashore on Nicaragua

.

Decommissioned at San Diego on 31 March 1930, Wood was struck from the Navy list on 22 July. Her hulk was then sold for scrap on 14 November 1930.

As of 2005, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named Wood. Exchequer was laid down in 1942; renamed Wood in October 1942, but renamed USS Leedstown prior to commissioning.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/317.htm

History

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