High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barry (DD-2), a Bainbridge-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore John Barry (1745 1803). Barry was launched on 22 March 1902 by Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sponsored by Miss Charlotte Adams Barnes the great-grandniece of Commodore Barry: and commissioned on 24 November 1902, Lieutenant Noble Edward Irwin in command. Barry was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England coast. In December 1903 she departed the East Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to the Asiatic Station, arriving in April 1904.