USS Galaxy (IX-54)

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Career
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Built:	1930
Purchased:	8 September 1941
Commissioned:	20 September 1941
Decommissioned:	2 August 1945
Struck:	1 May 1946
Fate:	Transferred to Maritime Commission on 20 May 1946 for disposal
General characteristics
Displacement:	320 tons
Length:	130 ft
Beam:	21 ft 4 in
Draft:	7 ft 3 in
Propulsion:	Diesel engines
Speed:	11.4 knots
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Complement:	27
Armament:	None
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USS Galaxy (IX-54), was a diesel motor yacht built in 1930 by Pusey and Jones Company, in Wilmington, Delaware; purchased on 8 September 1941 from Mr. Bernard W. Doyle, of Leominster, Massachusetts; and commissioned at East Boston, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1941, with Lieutenant (j.g.) William D. Hodges, USNR, in command. The Galaxy was the only ship of the United States Navy to hold this name.

Galaxy was acquired for the express purpose of research in underwater sound. Based at East Boston throughout her entire career, as a unit of the 1st Naval District, she completed a variety of assignments for the Underwater Sound Laboratory, Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut; experimental underwater sound work for the Bureau of Ships and the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. These operations were carried out at Boston and off New London; and for a brief time off the Delaware breakwaters and in the Chesapeake Bay.

She was decommissioned and was placed "in service" on 2 August 1945, to continue her experimental assignments until placed out of service at Boston 25 March 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 May 1946 and she was transferred to the Maritime Commission on 20 May 1946 for disposal.