USS Blakeley

USS Blakeley in September 1942, after modernization
History
United States
Name	Blakeley
Namesake	Johnston Blakeley
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost	$1,448,367.50 (hull & machinery)[1]
Yard number	465
Laid down	26 March 1918
Launched	19 September 1918
Commissioned	8 May 1919
Decommissioned	29 June 1922
Recommissioned	1932
Decommissioned	1937
Recommissioned	16 October 1939
Decommissioned	21 July 1945
Stricken	13 August 1945
Fate	Sold for scrapping 30 November 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,154 tons
Length	314 ft 5 in (95.8 m)
Beam	31 ft 8 in (9.7 m)
Draft	9 ft 0 in (2.7 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement	122 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm) gun 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

The second USS Blakeley (DD–150) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Captain Johnston Blakeley.

Built in 1918, she saw patrol duty along the East Coast of the United States during the interwar era. Decommissioned for several years, she returned to duty at the outset of World War II. She spent much of the war on convoy patrol duty in the Caribbean Sea. On 25 May 1942, while on patrol, she was struck by a torpedo fired by the German submarine U-156, which blew off her forward 60 feet (18 m). Fitted with temporary measures, she steamed to Philadelphia Naval Yard where she was fitted with the forward section of sister ship USS Taylor. She spent much of the rest of the war on convoy patrol duty before being sold for scrap in 1945.