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Howard (AG 106)
ex-DMS-7
Call sign:
November - India - Foxtrot - Mike
ex-DD-179
Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 9 December 1918 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; Launched, 26 April 1919; Commissioned, USS Howard, Destroyer No. 179, 29 January 1920 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Designated DD-179, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 27 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 29 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-7, 19 November 1940; Reclassified a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-106, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 30 November 1946; Struck from the Naval Register 19 December 1945; Sold for scrap in 1946 to Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, PA.
Specifications: Displacement 1,060 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 11' 4"; Speed 31.2 kts.; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion Yarrow boilers, two 27,000shp Bethlehem Steel (Curtis design) geared turbines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Howard (DD-179)
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