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Breese (DM 18)
ex-DD-122
Call sign:
November - Echo - Sierra - Mike
Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 10 November 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 11 May 1918; Commissioned USS Breese, Destroyer No. 122, 23 October 1918; Designated DD-122, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 17 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-18, 5 January 1930; Recommissioned, 1 June 1931; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 12 November 1937 at San Diego; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Decommissioned, 15 January 1946 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register 7 February 1946; Sold for scrapping, 16 May 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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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Breese (DD-122)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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