USS Barry (Destroyer #2) DD-2

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Bainbridge (1899) (Class Overview)
Builder:
Neafie & Levy Ship &
Engine Building Co.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hull Number:
Destroyer #2
DD-2 (July 17, 1920)
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
November 24, 1902
Keel Laid:
September 2, 1899
Decommissioned:
June 28, 1919
Launched:
March 22, 1902
Stricken:


September 15, 1919
Fate:
Sold Jan. 3, 1920 and scrapped.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
250'
Engines:
2 Vertical inverted triple expansion
Beam:
23' 7"
Boilers:
4 x Thornycroft (coal fired)
Draft:
9' 3"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
420 std. / 592 full
SHP:
8,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:

75
(91 wartime)

Range:
N/A


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
2
3"/50 (76mm)
Single mounts
14,600 yards @ 43° (8.2 miles)
AA ceiling 30,400'
13 lb. HE shell

5
2.2" (57mm)
6 pounder
Single mounts
8,700 yards @ 45° (4.9 miles)
10,000 AA ceiling
6.3 lb. HE shell

2
18" Torpedo tubes
Single mounts


History:
Christened by Miss Charlotte Adams Barnes.


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