maneuvers, Presidential cruises, technological experimentation, and serving as an escort. 1922 In October 1922, USS Corry was fitted with a Hayes Sonic Depth Finder for testing. She spent the next few months off the coast of California charting the ocean floor with . Covering 4,565 nautical miles (12,000 square miles), the pair surveyed the floor between San Francisco to Monterey Bay as well as Cape Deseanso to Santa Rosa Island in a 35-day period. USS Corry is responsible for discovering several uncharted banks, including an underwater mountain range – now known as the Southern California Continental Borderland. 1923 In March, after surveying the California Coast, USS Corry was ordered to survey the waterway approaches to the Panama Canal from both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. When this was completed, she joined fleet exercises off Panama and out of San Diego. In June, she was selected to be part of the 36th Destroyer Division – serving as an escort for President Warren G. Harding on . This voyage from Alaska to Canadian waters consisted of stops in Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Seward, Valdez, Cordova, Sitka, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Fate United States Navy Secretary Charles Francis Adams raised the issue to Congress that 60 Flush-Deckers were wearing out. The Navy could not justify the spending in the fiscal budget to refit all the ships. The "1930 Rehabilitation Program" was implemented, resulting in the decommissioning of 46 ships. The fleet was then sold and scrapped separately to generate revenue post the 1929 stock market crash. USS Corry was among that group, sold for scrap in 1930. After disarmament and deactivation, the ship was hauled to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, but scrapping was halted after removing most of the superstructure and forward hull. The remains of the ship were then towed to and abandoned as a break wall in the Napa River (near the mouth of American Canyon Creek just north of Slaughterhouse Point) where she remains as of 2022. References Clemson-class destroyers Ships built in San Francisco 1921 ships