USS Luce at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 28 November 1919
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Luce |
Namesake | Stephen B. Luce |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 9 February 1918 |
Launched | 29 June 1918 |
Commissioned | 11 September 1918 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Identification | DD-99 |
Recommissioned | 19 March 1930 |
Decommissioned | 31 January 1931 |
Reclassified | 18 March 1920, DM-4 |
Stricken | 7 January 1936 |
Fate | Scrapped, 13 November 1936 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,191 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 2 in (2.8 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 133 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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The first USS Luce (DD-99) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and the years following. She was named in honor of Stephen B. Luce.