USS Barry (DD-2)

USS Barry (DD-2) in port soon after completion, circa 1902-1903.
History
United States
Name:	Barry
Namesake:	Commedore John Barry
Ordered:	4 May 1898
Awarded:	1 October 1898
Builder:	Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cost:	$283,000 (hull and machinery)
Laid down:	2 September 1899
Launched:	22 March 1902
Sponsored by:	Miss Charlotte Adams Barnes
Commissioned:	24 November 1902
Decommissioned:	2 April 1908
Commissioned:	21 December 1908
Decommissioned:	21 October 1912
Commissioned:	24 June 1913
Decommissioned:	28 June 1919
Struck:	15 September 1919
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-2 Code letters:NCK
Fate:	sold January 3, 1920 to Joseph G. Hitner, Philadelphia for $10,855
Status:	broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bainbridge-class destroyer
Displacement:	420 long tons (430 t) (standard) 592 long tons (601 t) (full load)
Length:	245 ft (74.7 m) (pp) 250 ft (76.2 m) (oa)
Beam:	23 ft 7 in (7.2 m)
Draft:	6 ft 6 in (2.0 m) (mean)
Installed power:	4 × Thornycroft boilers 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × Vertical triple expansion engines 2 × Propellers
Speed:	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) (designed speed) 28.13 kn (52.10 km/h; 32.37 mph) (On trials)
Complement:	3 officers 72 enlisted men
Armament:	2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns 5 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Barry (Destroyer No. 2/DD-2), was a Bainbridge-class destroyer, she was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore John Barry (1745–1803).

Barry was launched on 22 March 1902 by Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia; sponsored by Miss Charlotte Adams Barnes the great-grandniece of Commodore Barry: and commissioned on 24 November 1902, Lieutenant Noble Edward Irwin in command.

Barry was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England coast.

Setting out on 23 December 1903, the flotilla proceeded by way of Puerto Rico and the Canary Islands to Gibraltar where it arrived on 27 January 1904. Resuming the voyage on 31 January, the warships stopped at Algiers for a week in early February. On 9 February, they arrived at Valletta, Malta, where the flotilla and Buffalo had to lay over for a fortnight while Barry went into dry dock to have her propellers repaired after damaging them while mooring. Transiting the Suez Canal on 26 February, the flotilla stayed at Port Suez, Egypt, until the 29th when it headed down the Red Sea to Aden. In March, Barry and her companions visited Bombay, India, and Colombo, Ceylon. They made the last stop before reaching their destination, a port call at Singapore, between 3 and 9 April. The flotilla then made the relatively short final leg of the voyage, from Singapore to Cavite in the Philippines, on 9 April 1904.