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Burns (DM 11)
ex-DD-171

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 15 April 1918 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.; Launched 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Burns, Destroyer No. 171, 7 August 1919; Redesignated DD-171, 17 July 1920; Converted to a Light Minelayer, DM-11, 15 March 1921; Decommissioned 2 June 1930 at San Diego, CA; Towed to Mare Island Navy Yard 11 June 1930 for use as a barracks ship; Struck from the Navy Register 18 November 1930; Sold for scrap 22 April 1932.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4", two 1-pounders, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion four White-Foster boilers, two 24,200shp Parsons turbines, two shafts.

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Burns 107k Photographed on 14 April 1926. Burns is in the left background still wearing her destroyer hull number. Matsonia (ID 1589) is in the foreground.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1972.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 76070		 Robert Hurst
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Little (DD-171)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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