Ships
- USS Alden (DD-211) Captain, 8 May 1930 to 8 August 1930 · He recommissioned her.
Lloyd Robert Gray was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. In the late spring of 1930 he took charge of a destroyer that had spent most of the decade tied up, and he was the officer who put her back in commission.
Alden (DD-211) was a Clemson-class flush-deck destroyer built at Philadelphia by William Cramp and Sons. Her keel was laid on 24 October 1918, she was launched on 14 May 1919, and she first entered service on 24 November 1919 with William Alexander Ancrum in command. After duty on the Asiatic Station, including a call at Yokohama, she returned to the West Coast, reached San Francisco in October 1922, and was decommissioned at San Diego on 24 January 1923. She stayed inactive through the remainder of the 1920s.
On 8 May 1930, at San Diego, Gray recommissioned Alden and assumed command as a lieutenant commander. The ship was assigned to the destroyer squadrons of the Battle Fleet, the organization later known as Destroyers, Battle Force, with San Diego as her home port and Mare Island as her home yard. His command ran from that recommissioning day until 8 August 1930.
Before Alden, he had commanded the destroyer Melvin from 28 November 1927 until 8 May 1930. He left Melvin on the same day he brought Alden back into service, stepping from one flush-deck destroyer to another as the active destroyer force was being sorted out at the start of the 1930s. His tour in Alden lasted three months, long enough to restore the ship to the fleet and to see her started on the San Diego routine of training and upkeep that followed.