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U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX DD

13)DD 247 GOFF



Photowww.navsource.org  Circa 1936. Photo taken from a calendar. In memory of Gordon Kenneth Delo CMM(AA) - He served aboard the Goff from 1934 to 1939. Killed in action aboard the USS Monssen in 1942. Cheryl Caruso


CLASS - CLEMSON


Basic repeat Wickes Class, with 35% more fuel capacity to improve endurance problems.


Designed radius was 4900 nautical miles at 15 Knots.


Launched June 2 1920 and commissioned January 19 1921.


Decommissioned January 13 1931 and recommissioned March 2 1932.


Decommissioned July 21 1945.


Stricken August 13 1945.


Fate: Sold November 30 1945 to Northern Metals, Philadelphia and broken up for scrap.


Displacement 1,215 Tons.


Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)


Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt.


Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws.


Speed, 35 Knots.


Crew 114.


DD 247 Goff spent the first 7 months of 1944 with Albemarle, shepherding the tender safely to San Juan, Trinidad, Casablanca, Recife, Brazil, and Avonmouth, England, before putting in at Boston on 13 July 1944 for overhaul.



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USS Altair (AD-11) At Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 1 October 1942. The four ships alongside are (from left to right): USS Spry (PG-64); USS Bainbridge (DD-246); USS Goff (DD-247); and Dutch minelayer/patrol vessel Jan van Brakel. Photographed from USS Pocomoke (AV-9). Note the pattern camouflage on most of these ships. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. By Fred Weiss


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Three Wickes and two Clemson class destroyers await the scrapper´s torch at NAS Cape May, New Jersey in October of 1945. From Left; USS Greer (DD-145), USS Bainbridge (DD-246), USS Goff (DM-22 ex DD-247), USS Badger (DD-126) and USS Lea (DD-118). By Gerd Matthes/Christopher Bainbridge McKnight


 

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