Last month's featured U.S. warship was the USS Gridley (DDG-101). There were three other USS Gridleys in the Navy.
They were all named after Charles V. Gridley of USS Olympia/Dewey "You may fire when ready, Gridley" fame. I have also written a lot about him in this blog and my Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog.
This was the first of the four USS Gridleys.
From Wikipedia.
The first Gridley was a Wickes-class destroyer commissioned after World War I. Ships of this class were often called Four Stackers for the four smokestacks on each one.
It was launched 4 July 1918 and commissioned 8 March 1919. Decommissioned 22 June 1922 and sold for scrap 19 April 1939.
315 feet long,
31 foot beam, four 4-inch guns and twelve 21-inch torpedo tubes.
--Cooter
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