USS Woolsey (DD-437)
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| Name: | Woolsey |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 9 October 1939 |
| Launched: | 12 February 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 7 May 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 February 1947 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1971 |
| Fate: | Sold to Andy International, Inc., for scrapping on 29 May 1974 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gleaves-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,630 tons |
| Length: | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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| Speed: | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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USS Woolsey (DD-437), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship to be named Woolsey in the United States Navy. It is the first to be named for both Commodore Melancthon Brooks Woolsey and his father Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.
Woolsey was laid down on 9 October 1939 at Bath, Maine by the Bath Iron Works and launched on 12 February 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Irving Spencer. The ship was commissioned on 7 May 1941 with Lieutenant Commander William H. Von Dreele in command.
Following a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, Woolsey joined the Atlantic Fleet at the beginning of the second week in September in 1941. Initially, she served on the Neutrality Patrol, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to keep the war in Europe from spreading to the western hemisphere. For a time, she also served as a unit in the screen of the newly commissioned battleship North Carolina. As the year 1941 waned and the United States approached closer and closer to active belligerency, Woolsey began escorting convoys between the United States and Iceland.
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