USS Wood (DD-317)
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| Namesake: | William Maxwell Wood |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco |
| Laid down: | 23 January 1919 |
| Launched: | 28 May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 28 January 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1930 |
| Struck: | sold for scrap, 14 November 1930 |
| Fate: | 22 July 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m) |
| Beam: | 31 feet 8 inches (9.65 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet 10 inches (3.00 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 130 officers and enlisted |
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USS Wood (DD-317) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was the first Navy ship named for Navy Surgeon-General William M. Wood (1809–1880).
Wood was laid down on 23 January 1919 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 28 May 1919; sponsored by Mrs. George Kirkland Smith, the granddaughter of William Maxwell Wood; reclassified DD-317 on 17 July 1920; and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, on 28 January 1921, Lieutenant Commander Paul M. Bates in command.
Following commissioning, Wood underwent her trials before mooring at the Santa Fe docks, San Diego, California, where she remained as part of the "rotating reserve" into the summer of 1921. The new destroyer then spent the ensuing months, into the late spring of 1922, operating off the coast of southern California on drills and exercises, off the port of San Pedro, and the Coronado Islands.
At the end of that period of activity in June 1922, Wood shifted northward and reached Seattle, Washington, on 1 July 1922. She spent 4 July there before visiting Port Angeles, Washington, with the fleet, for exercises and maneuvers. She then conducted tactical drills and exercises in the Pacific Northwest, touching at Tacoma, Port Angeles, Bellingham, and Seattle before departing Port Angeles on 2 September, bound for Mare Island.
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