USS Richard P. Leary (DD-664)

History
United States
Name:	USS Richard P. Leary
Namesake:	Richard P. Leary
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard
Laid down:	4 July 1943
Launched:	6 October 1943
Commissioned:	23 February 1944
Decommissioned:	10 December 1946
Struck:	18 March 1974
Fate:	Transferred to Japan, 10 March 1959 Returned 10 March 1974 Sold for scrap 1 July 1976
Japan
Name:	Yūgure
Acquired:	10 March 1959
Struck:	1974
Fate:	Returned to US, 10 March 1974
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,050 long tons (2,083 t)
Length:	376 ft 5 in (114.73 m)
Beam:	39 ft 7 in (12.07 m)
Draft:	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Propulsion:	60,000 shp (45 MW) 2 propellers
Speed:	35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Range:	6,500 nmi (12,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:	329
Armament:	5 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns 10 × 40 mm AA guns 7 × 20 mm AA guns 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks
Service record
Part of:	United States Pacific Fleet (1943-1946) Pacific Reserve Fleet (1946-1959,1974) Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (1959-1974)
Operations:	Battle of Peleliu (1944) Battle of Leyte (1944) Battle of Surigao Strait (1944) Battle of Luzon (1945) Battle of Iwo Jima (1945) Battle of Okinawa (1945)
Awards:	6 battle stars

USS Richard P. Leary (DD-664) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Richard P. Leary (1842–1901). In 1959, the ship was transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and renamed Yūgure. The destroyer remained in service with the Japanese until 1974, when she was returned to the US, who then sold the ship for scrap in 1976.

Richard P. Leary was laid down on 4 July 1943 at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts; launched 6 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. George K. Crozer III; and commissioned 23 February 1944, Commander Frederic S. Habecker in command.

Following shakedown off Bermuda, Richard P. Leary sailed via the Panama Canal for Pearl Harbor. After escort duty to Eniwetok and Saipan in July, she supported the landings at Peleliu 15 September 1944, and at Leyte 20 October. During the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October, she launched torpedoes at the Japanese battleship Yamashiro, splashed one enemy plane, and guarded the damaged destroyer USS Albert W. Grant. While patrolling off Leyte Gulf on 1 November, she rescued 70 survivors of the destroyer USS Abner Read.

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