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Elliot (AG 104)
ex-DMS 4



Call sign:
November - Echo - Romeo - Victor

ex-DD-146

Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 23 February 1918 at William Cramp and Sons Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.; Launched, 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Elliot, Destroyer No. 146, 26 January 1919; Designated DD-146, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 22 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 8 February 1930; Reclassified as a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-4, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-104, 6 June 1946; Decommissioned, 12 October 1946 at San Pedro, CA; Struck from the Naval Register 24 October 1945; Sold for scrap 29 January 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 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 White-Forster boilers, 26,000shp New York Shipbuilding Co. (Parsons design) geared turbines, De Laval single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Elliot 166k Plan view, aft, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
USN Photo NH 98640		 Naval Historical Center
Elliot 169k Plan view, forward, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
USN Photo NH 98643		 Naval Historical Center
Elliot 66k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.
USN Photo NH 83216		 Naval Historical Center
Elliot 78k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 83216		 Naval Historical Center
Elliot 86k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 98640		 Naval Historical Center
Elliot 84k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 98640		 Naval Historical Center
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