&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USSLearyDD158.jpg) USS Leary wearing measure 22 camouflage
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Leary |
| Namesake | Clarence F. Leary |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 6 March 1918 |
| Launched | 18 December 1918 |
| Commissioned | 5 December 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 29 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
| Fate | Sunk by U-275 in the North Atlantic, 24 December 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,090 long tons (1,107 t) |
| Length | 314 ft (96 m) |
| Beam | 30.5 ft (9.3 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement | 176 officers and enlisted |
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USS Leary (DD-158) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant Clarence F. Leary, posthumously awarded the Navy Cross in World War I.
Commissioned in 1919, she saw a number of fleet exercises and training cruises, as well as a period of decommissioning from 1922 to 1930. With the outbreak of World War II, she escorted a number of convoys to Iceland, the Caribbean, and west Africa to support the war effort, later being upgraded to serve as an anti-submarine warfare vessel. On 24 December 1943, while escorting Card through rough seas in the North Atlantic, she was torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-275 and sank with the loss of 98 men.