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Stansbury (AG 107)
ex-DMS-8
ex-DD-180



Call sign:
November - Echo - Xray - Victor
Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 9 December 1918 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (Union Iron Works), San Francisco, CA; Launched, 16 May 1919; Commissioned USS Stansbury, Destroyer No. 180, 8 January 1920 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA ; Designated DD-180, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 27 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Recommissioned, 29 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-8, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-107, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 11 December 1945 at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA ; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January 1946; Sold 26 October 1946 to the Luria Bros. Co., Philadelphia, PA; Scrapped 25 January 1947 .

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 three Yarrow boilers, two Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Curtis design) geared turbines, Falk single reduction gear,
two shafts.

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Stansbury 74k Underway off San Diego, California, circa 1920-1922, while serving with Destroyer Division 22.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman.
Courtesy of Carter Rila, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100960		 Naval Historical Center
View the Stansbury (DMS-8)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Stansbury (DD-180)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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