Namesake Essay Series | Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers - USS Barry (DDG-52)
USS Barry (DDG-52)Who Was John Barry?Commodore John Barry (1745–1803) was an Irish-born merchant-captain who threw in with the Continentals in 1776. Sailing first in Lexington and later the 32-gun frigate Alliance, he captured or destroyed more than twenty British vessels, fought the last naval skirmish of the Revolution, and after 1789 became senior officer of the new United States Navy.[1] Congress later issued him the 1st official U.S. Navy commission and nineteenth-century officers hailed…
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