William Henry Moody

The U.S. Navy named Destroyer No. 277 after William H. Moody. Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. in the Squantum section of Quincy, MA, the USS Moody was sponsored by Mary E. Moody, Moody’s sister, and launched on June 28, 1919.

Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, the destroyer participated in inspection tours and training exercises along the California coast and up to Alaska. After a brief decommission from June 1922 to September 1923, the destroyer took part in exercises in the Hawaiian Islands and a good-will tour to Australia and New Zealand. In 1927, she participated in tactical maneuvers in the Caribbean based out of the port at Guantanamo.

After cruises to Hawaii, Mexico, Panama, and the Pacific Northwest, on June 2, 1930, Moody was decommissioned at San Diego, CA. With most of her superstructure sold for scrap metal, the hull was sunk off the California coast in February 1933.

USS Moody