USS Corry (DDR-817)
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USS Corry (DD-817) in March 1946
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Corry |
| Namesake: | William M. Corry, Jr. |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 5 April 1945 |
| Launched: | 28 July 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 27 February 1946 |
| Reclassified: | DDR-817, 9 April 1953 |
| Reclassified: | DD-817, 1 January 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 February 1981 |
| Struck: | 27 February 1981 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Greece, 8 July 1981 |
 Greece
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| Name: | Kriezis |
| Namesake: | Antonios Kriezis |
| Acquired: | 8 July 1981 |
| Struck: | 1994 |
| Identification: | D217 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 2002 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Corry (DD/DDR-817) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the third Navy ship named for Lieutenant Commander William M. Corry, Jr. (1889–1920), a naval aviator who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Corry was launched on 28 July 1945 by Consolidated Steel Corp. of Texas, Orange, Texas; sponsored by Miss Corry; commissioned on 27 February 1946, Commander M. S. Shellabarger in command; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.
Corry sailed from Galveston, Texas, on 28 March 1946 for shakedown training in the Caribbean Sea, and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 10 July. Following a tour of duty in European waters and the Mediterranean Sea from 23 July 1946 to 19 March 1947, Corry conducted Reserve training cruises from the Potomac River Naval Command, then reported to Pensacola, Florida, to serve as plane guard for aircraft carriers operating off Florida from 22 September 1947 to 28 April 1950.
Corry joined Destroyer Squadron 8 (DesRon 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.
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