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Montgomery (DM 17)



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Xray - Juliet

ex-DD-121

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 2 October 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 23 March 1918; Commissioned USS Montgomery, Destroyer No. 121, 26 July 1918; Designated DD-121, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 6 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-17, 5 January 1931; Recommissioned, 20 August 1931; Decommissioned, 7 December 1937 at San Diego; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Decommissioned, 23 April 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1945; Sold for scrapping, 11 March 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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USS Montgomery (DD 121)
SC-125 98k 1 February 1918
SC-125 and Montgomery, (in camouflage paint), at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
National Archives photo RG-165WW, Fiche 280		 Dan Treadwell
USS Montgomery (DM 17)
Montgomery 150k . .
Montgomery 63k c. 1940 .
Montgomery 87k c. 1943
Dutch Harbor, AK		 .
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Montgomery (DD-121)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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