U.S.S. SAMUEL N. MOORE
DD-747 A Short History

June 24, 1944 was hazily overcast and muggy in New York City. The shadow of war hung over the world, and the Navy Yard at Brooklyn was alive with activity. In the midst of the noise and confusion lay a new destroyer, fresh from the Bethlehem Steel Company’s shipyard at Staten Island. Rear-Admiral Monroe Kelley, USN, addressed the newly organized crew which was gathered on the fantail,and with a few words and without fanfare commissioned the USS SAMUEL N. MOORE (DD747) as a fighting unit of the UNITED STATES NAVY.