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Photo # NH 69327:  USS Corry anchored off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s

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USS Corry (DD-334), 1921-1930

USS Corry, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in May 1921. She primarily operated along the west coast of North America during her nearly nine years of active service, but also visited the Caribbean to participate in U.S. Fleet exercises. In mid-1923 Corry escorted President Warren G. Harding during his cruise to Alaska on board the transport Henderson. Two years later she was stationed along the route of Navy seaplanes attempting a non-stop flight from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands. Late in 1929, as part of a program to replace worn-out destroyers with others taken out of reserve, USS Corry began inactivation preparations. She was decommissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard in April 1930, partially dismantled, and sold in October of that year.

USS Corry (DD-334) was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander William M. Corry, Jr., one of the Navy's early aviators.

This page features all the views we have of USS Corry (DD-334), and provides links to selected photographs of her hulk after it was disposed of by the Navy.

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Corry (DD-334) -- Ship's Hulk after Disposal by the Navy.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 69327

    USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    Anchored off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.
    Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.

    Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 72634

    USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    At anchor off San Diego, California, circa 1921.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69326

    USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    Anchored off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.

    Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55394

    USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    Underway off Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, circa the middle or later 1920s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77258

    USS Cuyama (AO-3)


    With twelve destroyers tied up alongside, during the early 1920s. The ships present include (from left to right):
    USS Jacob Jones (DD-130);
    USS Hull (DD-330);
    USS Thompson (DD-305);
    USS Corry (DD-334);
    USS Kennedy (DD-306);
    USS Reno (DD-303);
    USS Cuyama (AO-3;
    USS Stoddert (DD-302);
    USS Yarborough (DD-314);
    USS Sloat (DD-316);
    USS Litchfield (DD-336);
    USS Shubrick (DD-268);
    USS Young (DD-312);

    Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, 1973. From the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99095

    USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Union Plant, Potrero Works, San Francisco, California, 28 March 1921.
    Small photograph at left shows the ship's Sponsor, Mrs. Sarah M.E. Corry.
    USS Morris (DD-271) is partially visible in the right background.

    Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70793 (cropped)

    Destroyers at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1930

    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS Badger (DD-126);
    USS Claxton (DD-140);
    USS Philip (DD-76);
    USS Broome (DD-210);
    and the stricken Corry (ex DD-334), which is being scrapped.
    This view is cropped from Photo # NH 70793.

    Courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55395

    ex-USS Corry
    (DD-334)

    Being dismantled, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa 1930.

    Courtesy of J.A. Casoly.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     

    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Corry (DD-334) -- Ship's Hulk after Disposal by the Navy.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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