Fate
Moody decommissioned at San Diego 2 June 1930. She was towed to Mare Island Navy Yard arriving on the 8th. The destroyer was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 November in accordance with the London Treaty limiting naval armaments. Most of her superstructure was sold as scrap metal 10 June 1931 and she was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about US$35,000. Ex-Moody was altered to represent a German destroyer, and charges of dynamite were set at carefully planned locations. On the afternoon 21 February 1933, the first charge was detonated, splitting ex-Moody between two watertight compartments so she continued to float after breaking up. Then two other detonations breached the watertight bulkheads, sinking the hulk later that evening. The explosions and sinkings were filmed as the destruction caused by torpedoes from the fictional American submarine AL-14 (played by USS S-31 (SS-136)) in the 1933 submarine movie Hell Below.
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