USS Maury (DD-401)
USS Maury when first completed in mid-1938. The original print has been autographed by Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, who served with Maury while he was a Destroyer Division commander in 1943.
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| Name: | Maury |
| Namesake: | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
| Builder: | Union Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 24 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 14 February 1938 |
| Commissioned: | 5 August 1938 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1945 |
| Identification: | DD-401 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 13 June 1946 |
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| Class and type: | Gridley-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,500 tons |
| Length: | 341 ft 4 in (104.04 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 10 in (10.92 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | 50,000 shp (37,000 kW) Bethlehem geared turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 176 |
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The second USS Maury (DD-401) was a Gridley-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Matthew Maury.
Maury was laid down on 24 March 1936 by Union Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California and launched on 14 February 1938; sponsored by Miss Virginia Lee Maury Werth, granddaughter of Commander Maury. The ship was commissioned on 5 August 1938, Lieutenant Commander Edward M. Thompson in command. On speed trials, Maury reached 42.8 knots, far in excess of her design speed of 36.5 knots and the highest speed ever achieved by a U.S. Navy destroyer.
Assigned to the Pacific Fleet after commissioning, Maury was operating out of Pearl Harbor when the United States entered World War II. She was steaming with the aircraft carrier Enterprise en route to Hawaii from TF 8 operations near Wake Island, when word of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached her soon after 0900, 7 December 1941. The ship went to general quarters as the force began an unsuccessful search for the Japanese Fleet. By the time the force returned to Pearl Harbor only one enemy vessel had been sighted and sunk, by carrier aircraft, the submarine I-70 on 10 December. For the remainder of 1941, Maury, in the screen of Enterprise, stayed in the Hawaiian area to guard against a follow-up attack by the Japanese.
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