USS Gillis (DD-260)
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 United States
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| Namesake: | John P. Gillis |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1918 |
| Launched: | 17 May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1945 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping 29 January 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,190 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet 5 inches (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet 3 inches (2.82 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 120 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 4 in (100 mm) guns, 2 x 3 in (76 mm) guns, 4 x 21 inch (533 mm) tt. |
USS Gillis (DD-260/AVD-12) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore John P. Gillis and Rear Admiral James Henry Gillis.
Gillis was launched 29 May 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Miss Helen Irvine Murray, granddaughter of Admiral Gillis; and Mrs. Josephine T. Smith, niece of Commodore Gillis; commissioned 3 September 1919, Lieutenant Commander Webb Trammell in command.
Gillis sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, 17 December 1919 and moored at San Diego, California 20 January 1920. She joined the Pacific Fleet Destroyer Force in tactics and maneuvers along the West Coast until decommissioned at San Diego 26 May 1922. Recommissioned in ordinary 28 June 1940, she was reclassified 2 August as seaplane tender destroyer AVD-12. Following conversion she was placed in full commission at San Francisco, California, 25 March 1941.
Gillis was assigned as tender to Patrol Wing 4, Aircraft Scouting Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. In the following months she performed plane guard patrol between San Diego and Seattle, Washington with time out for aircraft tending duties at Sitka, Alaska (14–17 June) ; Dutch Harbor and Kodiak (15–31 July). After overhaul in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard she returned to Kodiak 16 October 1941 to resume tending of amphibious patrol planes in Alaskan waters. She was serving at Kodiak when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and returned to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 9 February 1942 for overhaul.
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