USS Borie (DD-215)

USS Borie (DD-215), 1942.
History
United States
Name	Borie
Namesake	Adolph E. Borie
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost	$892,847 (hull & machinery)[1]
Yard number	481
Laid down	30 April 1919
Launched	4 October 1919
Commissioned	24 March 1920
Fate	Scuttled by USS Barry in the North Atlantic after ramming U-405, 2 November 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Clemson-class destroyer
Displacement	1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
Length	314 ft 4 in (95.8 m)
Beam	31 ft 9 in (9.7 m)
Draft	9 ft 10 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion	26,500 shp (19,761 kW) Geared turbines 2 screws
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	122
Armament	Original (1920): 4 × 4 in (100 mm), 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA, 6 × .30 cal. (7.62 mm) machine guns, 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4x3, beam mounted) After refit (1943): 4 × 4 in (102 mm), 1 × 3 in (76 mm) AA, 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm AA guns, 2 × .30 cal. (7.62 mm) machine guns, 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4x3, beam mounted)

USS Borie (DD-215) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Navy, Adolph E. Borie. She served in the Black Sea, the Asiatic Fleet and the Caribbean between the wars, and in the Battle of the Atlantic, the long campaign to protect Allied shipping from German U-boats during World War II. As part of the antisubmarine Hunter-killer Group unit Task Group 21.14, the crew earned a Presidential Unit Citation for its "extraordinary performance." Borie also earned distinction in her final battle with U-405 in November 1943, exchanging small arms fire with and ramming the surfaced U-boat, although she was crippled during the engagement and thereafter scuttled by friendly ships.