USS Galaxy
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Galaxy |
| Builder | Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Launched | 1930 |
| Acquired | by purchase, 8 September 1941 |
| Commissioned | 20 September 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 2 August 1945 |
| In service | 2 August 1945 |
| Out of service | 25 March 1946 |
| Stricken | 1 May 1946 |
| Homeport | East Boston |
| Fate | Transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal, 20 May 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Research ship |
| Displacement | 320 long tons (325 t) |
| Length | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
| Draft | 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) |
| Propulsion | Diesel engines |
| Speed | 11.4 knots (21.1 km/h; 13.1 mph) |
| Complement | 27 |
| Armament | None |
USS Galaxy (IX-54), was a diesel motor yacht built in 1930 by Pusey and Jones Company, in Wilmington, Delaware for Mr. Bernard W. Doyle, of Leominster, Massachusetts. Purchased by the United States Navy on 8 September 1941 and commissioned at East Boston, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1941. The Galaxy was the only ship of the Navy to hold this name.
Service history
[edit]Galaxy was acquired for the express purpose of research in underwater sound. Based at East Boston throughout her entire career, as a unit of the 1st Naval District, she completed a variety of assignments for the Underwater Sound Laboratory, Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut; experimental underwater sound work for the Bureau of Ships and the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. These operations were carried out at Boston and off New London; and for a brief time off the Delaware breakwaters and in the Chesapeake Bay.
She was decommissioned and was placed "in service" on 2 August 1945, to continue her experimental assignments until placed out of service at Boston on 25 March 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 May 1946 and she was transferred to the Maritime Commission on 20 May 1946 for disposal.
Awards
[edit]References
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
[edit]- Photo gallery of USS Galaxy at NavSource Naval History
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