USS Leary (DD-158)

USS Leary wearing measure 22 camouflage
History
United States
Name	Leary
Namesake	Clarence F. Leary
Builder	New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey
Laid down	6 March 1918
Launched	18 December 1918
Commissioned	5 December 1919
Decommissioned	29 June 1922
Recommissioned	1 May 1930
Fate	Sunk by U-275 in the North Atlantic, 24 December 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,090 long tons (1,107 t)
Length	314 ft (96 m)
Beam	30.5 ft (9.3 m)
Draft	12 ft (3.7 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement	176 officers and enlisted
Armament	6 × 3 in (76 mm)/23 guns, 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks, 1 × Y-gun

USS Leary (DD-158) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant Clarence F. Leary, posthumously awarded the Navy Cross in World War I.

Commissioned in 1919, she saw a number of fleet exercises and training cruises, as well as a period of decommissioning from 1922 to 1930. With the outbreak of World War II, she escorted a number of convoys to Iceland, the Caribbean, and west Africa to support the war effort, later being upgraded to serve as an anti-submarine warfare vessel. On 24 December 1943, while escorting Card through rough seas in the North Atlantic, she was torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-275 and sank with the loss of 98 men.