USS Corry (DD-463)

The second Corry (DD-463) was laid down on 4 September 1940 at Charleston, S. C., by the Charleston Navy Yard; launched on 28 July 1941 and sponsored by Mrs. Jean C. Corry, the niece of Corry ’s eponym, Lt. Cmdr. William M. Corry, Jr.

Commissioned on 18 December 1941, Lt. Cmdr. Eugene C. Burchett in command, and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, Corry conducted her shakedown out of Casco Bay, Maine.

Following the completion of those drills she steamed back to Charleston, where she arrived on 5 May 1942. In mid-May, the ship departed Charleston and headed for Chesapeake Bay. On 18 May, she was moored to the dock at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. From 18 May to 20 May, in concert with the Navy’s Radio Washington, the ship participated in certain special operations conducted in the Severn River. On 21 May, she set out on her first mission, escorting the British naval auxiliary Queen Elizabeth . She made her first stop at Brooklyn, N.Y., on 22 May, where she fueled and then shortly thereafter set out to rendezvous with the object of her mission. At dawn, on 23 May, Corry made contact with Queen Elizabeth and escorted her to New York Harbor.

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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Corry II (DD-463)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.