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U.S.S. CORRY
(DD-817)PAIX ET PATRIE
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USS CORRY (DD-817) - a Gearing-class destroyer
In Commission 1946 to 1981DD-817 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DD-817 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-817 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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APR | 1945 | - | Keel Date: 5 APR 1945 at Consolidated Steel Corporation Orange TX | ||
JUL | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 28 JUL 1945 | ||
FEB | 1946 | - | Commissioned: 27 FEB 1946 | ||
JAN | 1952 | - | JUL | 1953 | Mediterranean |
APR | 1952 | - | OCT | 1952 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1956 | - | MAR | 1957 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1962 | - | SEP | 1962 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
NOV | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 NOV 1964 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUN | 1965 | - | OCT | 1965 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JUL | 1966 | - | DEC | 1966 | Med cruise including entry into Black Sea |
JAN | 1968 | - | FEB | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1968 | - | NOV | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1968 | - | FEB | 1969 | uss corry dd-817deployment |
SEP | 1968 | - | FEB | 1969 | uss corry dd-817/ westpac |
SEP | 1968 | - | APR | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1970 | - | SEP | 1970 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1972 | - | AUG | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1972 | - | OCT | 1972 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
SEP | 1972 | - | OCT | 1972 | North Atlantic |
SEP | 1972 | - | OCT | 1972 | NATO EXERCISE |
SEP | 1972 | - | SEP | 1972 | X Artic Circle: 17 September @ 02 18 00 longitude, light snow |
DEC | 1972 | - | JUN | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1978 | - | NOV | 1978 | Dry Dock |
DEC | 1978 | - | DEC | 1978 | Sea Trials |
MAR | 1979 | - | APR | 1979 | Guantanamo Bay |
FEB | 1981 | - | Decommissioned: 27 FEB 1981 |
DD-817 General Specifications
Class: Gearing-class destroyer
Named for: William M. Corry
Complement: 336 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 3460 tons
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 40 feet 10 inches
Flank Speed: 35 knots
Range: 4 500 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition:Transferred to Greece 8 July 1981
USS CORRY (DD-817)
The third Corry (DD-817) was launched 28 July 1945 by Consolidated Steel Corp. of Texas Orange Tex.sponsored by Miss Corry commissioned 27 February 1946 Commander M. S. Shellabarger in command; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.
Corry sailed from Galveston Tex. 28 March 1946 for shakedown training in the Caribbean and arrived at Norfolk 10 July. Following a tour of duty in European and Mediterranean waters from 23 July 1946 to 19 March 1947 Corry conducted Reserve training cruises from the Potomac River Naval Command then reported to Pensacola to serve as plane guard for carriers operating off Florida from 22 September 1947 to 28 April 1950.
Corry joined Destroyer Squadron 8 at Norfolk 22 May 1950 for antisubmarine exercises which included a cruise to Quebec in July. From 2 September to 12 November she served with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean and joined a midshipman cruise to northern Europe visiting Gotesburg and Cherbourg France from 1 June to 27 July 1951. Her next tour of duty with the 6th Fleet was from 22 April to 23 October 1952. Corry sailed out of Norfolk for local operations until 1 April 1953 when she was decommissioned for conversion to a radar picket destroyer. She was reclassified DDR-817 9 April 1953.
Recommissioned 9 January 1954
Corry carried NROTC midshipmen on a cruise to New Orleans and through the Panama Canal for operations at Balboa in the summer of 1954. From September 1954 through 1960 Corry alternated four tours of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean with operations out of Norfolk along the east coast
and exercises in the Caribbean.
[Note: The above USS CORRY (DD-817) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS CORRY (DD-817) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]