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Ramsay (AG 98)
ex-DM-16



DM-16 call sign:
November - India - Foxtrot - Charlie

ex-DD-124

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 21 December 1917 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 8 June 1918; Commissioned USS Ramsay, Destroyer No. 124, 15 February 1919; Designated DD-124, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 2 June 1930; Converted to a Light Minelayer, DM-16, 13 June 1930; Decommissioned, 14 December 1937 at San Diego; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-98, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 19 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1945; Sold for scrapping, 21 November 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50s, one 3"/23, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow/Thornycroft boilers, two Curtis geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts

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Montgomery 150k Nested portside to Montgomery (DM 17), with Gamble (DM 15) to Ramsay's port. Note her bow number just visible. .
Ramsay 39k DM-16 configuration at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. From the widow of Delmar Aldrich, Pearl Harbor Survivor. (via Jon Burdett)
Ramsay 101k 23 December 1943
Bow on view of Ramsey off San Francisco, CA.
U.S. Navy photo 8383-43		 Darryl Baker
Ramsay 99k 23 December 1943
Broadside view of Ramsey off San Francisco, CA.
U.S. Navy photo 8385-43		 Darryl Baker
Ramsay 97k 23 December 1943
Stern view of Ramsey off San Francisco, CA.
U.S. Navy photo 8387-43		 Darryl Baker
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