  {|    |} 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 brief period of decommissioning from 1922 to 1930. she was the first u.s. navy ship to be equipped with sonar, and the first to detect a german ship with it. 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 antisubmarine warfare vessel. on 24 december 1943, while escorting  through rough seas in the north atlantic, she was torpedoed three times by german submarine u-275 and sank with the loss of 98 men. == design and construction ==  leary was one of 111 wickes-class destroyers built by the united states navy between 1917 and 1919. she, along with nine of her sisters, were constructed at new york shipbuilding corporation shipyards in camden, new jersey using specifications and detail designs drawn up by bethlehem steel. she had a standard displacement of  an overall length of , a beam of  
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