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Hogan (AG 105)
ex-DMS-6



DMS-6 call sign:
November - Echo - Xray - Tango

ex-DD-178

Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 25 November 1918 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; Launched, 12 April 1919; Commissioned, USS Hogan, Destroyer No. 178, 1 October 1919; Designated DD-178, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 27 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 7 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-6, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-105, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 11 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1945; Sunk as a targt off San Diego, 8 November 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 1,060 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 11' 4"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three Yarrow boilers, two 27,000shp Bethlehem (Curtis design) geared turbines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Hogan 118k c. 1943 -
Hogan 66k 29 July 1943 -
Hogan 81k 29 July 1943
U.S. Navy Photo 80-G-78641		 DANFS
Hogan 194k 11 January 1944
After plan view of Hogan at Mare Island. The Trepang (SS 412) is on her building ways in the background.
U.S. Navy photo 296-44		 Darryl Baker
Hogan 164k 11 January 1944
Forward plan view of Hogan at Mare Island.
U.S. Navy photo 297-44		 Darryl Baker
Hogan 148k 11 January 1944
Broadside view of Hogan in the Mare Island channel. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 5 December 1943 to 15
January 1944.
U.S. Navy photo 309-44		 Darryl Baker
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