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Palmer (DMS 5)

Call sign:
November - Echo - Charlie - Victor

ex-DD-161

Sunk 7 January 1945

Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding Corp. (Bethlehem Steel Co.), Quincy, MA; Launched, 18 August 1918; Commissioned USS Palmer, Destroyer No. 161, 22 November 1918; Designated DD-161, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 31 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego; Recommissioned, 7 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-5, 19 November 1940; Sunk by enemy aircraft 7 January 1945 at Lingayen Gulf, Philippines; Struck from the Naval Register, 8
February 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50s, two 3"/23s, three .30 cal. machine guns, one dcp; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Bethlehem Steel geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	175k	Location unknown. Date possibly shortly after refitting as DMS-5 from DD-161. National Archives Photo		Everett N. Schrader SoM1/c, former crew member of USS Ira Jeffery DE-63.

View the Palmer (DMS-5)
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 Palmer (DD-161)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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