USS Blakeley

USS Blakeley in September 1942, after modernization
History
United States
NameBlakeley
NamesakeJohnston Blakeley
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$1,448,367.50 (hull & machinery)[1]
Yard number465
Laid down26 March 1918
Launched19 September 1918
Commissioned8 May 1919
Decommissioned29 June 1922
Recommissioned1932
Decommissioned1937
Recommissioned16 October 1939
Decommissioned21 July 1945
Stricken13 August 1945
FateSold for scrapping 30 November 1945
General characteristics
Class and typeWickes-class destroyer
Displacement1,154 tons
Length314 ft 5 in (95.8 m)
Beam31 ft 8 in (9.7 m)
Draft9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Speed35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement122 officers and enlisted
Armament

The second USS Blakeley (DD–150) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Captain Johnston Blakeley.

Built in 1918, she saw patrol duty along the East Coast of the United States during the interwar era. Decommissioned for several years, she returned to duty at the outset of World War II. She spent much of the war on convoy patrol duty in the Caribbean Sea. On 25 May 1942, while on patrol, she was struck by a torpedo fired by the German submarine U-156, which blew off her forward 60 feet (18 m). Fitted with temporary measures, she steamed to Philadelphia Naval Yard where she was fitted with the forward section of sister ship USS Taylor. She spent much of the rest of the war on convoy patrol duty before being sold for scrap in 1945.

  1. ^ "Table 21 - Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.