USS Tracy
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USS Tracy (DD-214/DM-19) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only ship named for Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy.
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USS Tracy (DD-214) at anchor sometime before her June 1937 reclassification as a destroyer minelayer. | |
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United States | |
Name | Tracy |
Namesake | Benjamin Franklin Tracy |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Yard number | 480 |
Laid down | 3 April 1919 |
Launched | 13 August 1919 |
Commissioned | 9 March 1920 |
Reclassified | Destroyer minelayer 30 June 1937 |
Decommissioned | 19 January 1946 |
Stricken | 7 February 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 16 May 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,308 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.82 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 11 in (9.42 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 132 officers and enlisted |
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