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Chandler (AG 108)
ex-DMS-9



Call sign:
Nan - Able - George - Love

ex-DD-206

Wickes Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 19 August 1918 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 19 March 1919; Commissioned USS Chandler, Destroyer No. 206, 5 September 1919; Designated DD-206, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 20 October 1922 at San Francisco, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Mare Island, CA; Recommissioned, 31 March 1930; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-9, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-108, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 21 November 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Navy Register 5 December 1945; Sold for scrap 18 November 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 8" ; Draft 12' 2"; Speed 32.5 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three White-Forster boilers, two 26,000shp Bethelehem (Parsons design) geared turbines, De Laval single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Chandler 82k Chandler throws up spray as she steams out of Pearl Harbor at about the time of the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941. She returned to Pearl Harbor 2 days later.
National Archives photo 80-G-32544		 Naval Historical Center
Chandler 214k c. 1942 Barbara Rebold
Chandler 77k 27 December 1943
Broadside view of Chandler at San Francisco.
U.S. Navy photo 8431-43		 Darryl Baker
Chandler 134k Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for high speed minesweepers of the DMS-9 (Chandler) class. This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 14 June 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side and superstructure ends.
National Archives photo 80-G-173484 at the Naval Historical Center		 Paul Rebold
Chandler 103k Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for high speed minesweepers of the DMS-9 (Chandler) class. This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 14 June 1944. It shows the ship's port side.
National Archives photo 80-G-173485 at the Naval Historical Center		 Paul Rebold
Chandler 144k 28 April 1945
The bridge of the Chandler is visible while she was in dry dock No. 2 at Mare Island. USS William C. Miller (DE 259), USS Cabana (DE 260) and USS Canfield (DE 262) were in dock with Chandler.
U.S. Navy photo 3042-45		 Darryl Baker
Chandler 108k 2 May 1945
Stern view off Mare Island.
U.S. Navy photo 3944-45		 Darryl Baker
Chandler 91k 2 May 1945
Bow on view off Mare Island.
U.S. Navy photo 3948-45		 Darryl Baker
Chandler 169k 7 May 1945
The bridge of the Chandler is visible while she was in dry dock No. 2 at Mare Island. USS William C. Miller (DE 259), USS Cabana (DE 260) and USS Canfield (DE 262) were in dock with Chandler.
U.S. Navy photo 3043-45		 Darryl Baker
Chandler 17k 23 May 1945 -
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