USS Moody (DD-277)
USS Moody in port sometime between 1920 and 1922
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| Name: | USS Moody |
| Namesake: | William Henry Moody |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum Victory Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1918 |
| Launched: | 28 June 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned: | 27 September 1923 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 June 1930 |
| Struck: | 3 November 1930 |
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| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,308 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 3 in (95.78 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 in (9.42 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Moody (DD-277) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy in commission from 1919 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1930. She was named for Justice William Henry Moody.
Moody was laid down on 9 December 1918 at Squantum Victory Yard of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched on 28 June 1919. She was commissioned on 10 December 1919 with Commander James D. Wilson in command.
Assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet, Moody departed Boston, Massachusetts, on 9 February 1920, loaded torpedoes and ammunition at Newport, Rhode Island, and steamed via New York City, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the Panama Canal to the United States West Coast, arriving at San Diego, California, on the 31st. She operated along the California coast through June 1920, and then departed San Francisco, California, on 1 July 1920 for Washington, where on 10 July 1920 she joined the cruise of United States Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, United States Secretary of the Interior John B. Payne, and Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, to Alaska. On an inspection tour of Alaskan coal and oil fields and looking for possible fleet anchorages, the cruise touched at nine ports including Sitka, Duncan Day, and Juneau, and lasted for nearly a month. Moody returned to San Diego on 31 August 1920 to operate off the California coast in training and in battle exercises for two months. She put into San Diego on 10 October 1920, remaining there and decommissioning on 15 June 1922.
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