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Boggs (AG 19)
ex-Boggs (DMS-3)



DMS-3 call sign:
Nan - Able - Mike - Tare

ex-Boggs (AG-19)
ex-Light Target No. 2 (IX 36)
ex-Boggs (DD 136)

Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 15 November 1917 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA: Launched, 25 April 1918; Commissioned USS Boggs, Destroyer No. 136, 23 September 1918; Designated DD-136, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 29 June 1922; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary and renamed Light Target No. 2 (IX 36), 11 August 1931; Renamed Boggs and reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-19, 5 September 1931; Recommissioned, 19 December 1931; Reclassified as a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-3, 19 November 1940; Again reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-19, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 20 May 1946; Struck from the Navy Register 12 April 1946; Sold for scrap 27 November 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,060 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 11' 4"; Speed 32.5 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three Normand boilers, two 26,000shp New York Shipbuilding Co. (Parsons design) geared turbines, Mare Island Navy Yard single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Boggs (DD 136)
Boggs 68k DD-136 at anchor, circa 1919-1921.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 766		 Naval Historical Center
USS Boggs (AG 19)
Boggs 112k Blowing off steam after a run while employed as a radio controlled target ship, circa 1933-1935. She still wears the bow number "136".
Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center photo NH 99143		 Barb Rebold
Boggs 121k At rest and valving steam, while employed as a radio controlled target ship, circa 1933-1935.
Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center photo NH 99144		 Barb Rebold
Boggs 148k AG-19 operating at sea as a radio controlled target, 26 March 1936. She still wears her destroyer hull number, despite having been redesignated AG-19 nearly five years earlier.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 98833		 Naval Historical Center
USS Boggs (DMS 3)
Boggs 206k . Barb Rebold
Boggs 139k 22 October 1941
Off Mare Island Navy Yard
U.S. Navy photo 2839-41		 Darryl Baker
Boggs 35k DMS-3 photographed circa early 1942, probably off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 98834		 Naval Historical Center
Boggs 74k DMS-3 arrives at Pearl Harbor from Canton Island, 2 March 1943.
U.S. Navy Photo 80-G-276612		 Naval Historical Center
USS Boggs (AG 19)
Boggs 177k c. 1945
As AG-19 for the second time		 Barb/Paul Rebold
Boggs 151k AG-19 photographed in June 1945.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 81406		 Naval Historical Center
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Boggs (DD-136)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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