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Southard (DMS 10)

Call sign:
November - Alpha - Juliet - Kilo

ex-DD-207

Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: : Laid down, 18 August 1918 by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 31 March 1919; Commissioned USS Southard, Destroyer No. 207, 24 September 1919; Designated DD-207, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 7 February 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 6 January 1930; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-10, 19 October 1940; Lost due to grounding, September 1945 at Tsuken Shima, Ryukyus Islands, Japan; Decommissioned, 5 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 January 1946; Hulk destroyed, 14 January 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,750 t(fl).; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 8" ; Draft 12' 2"; Speed 32.5 kts.; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount and one twin 40mm; Propulsion three White-Forster boilers, two 26,000shp Bethlehem (Parsons design) geared turbines, De Laval single reduction gear, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
88k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942. US Navy Photo NH 97942.	Naval Historical Center
91k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942. US Navy Photo NH 97943.	Naval Historical Center
133k	At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942. Note that she still retains her original four smokestacks and 4"/50 guns. A former sister ship, still fitted as a destroyer, is alongside, at left. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. US Navy Photo 19-N-30506.	Naval Historical Center
150k	At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942. Note that she still retains her original 4"/50 guns. Other items visible include her whaleboat and gig, engine room hatches, reels for minesweeping cables, .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on the rear corners of her after deckhouse, depth charge tracks and minesweeping gear on her stern. A former sister ship, still fitted as a destroyer, is alongside, with 20mm anti-aircraft machine guns and torpedo tubes visible. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy photo 19-N-30509	Naval Historical Center
78k	Photographed from dead ahead, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 June 1942. The actual date of the photo may be 9 June 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy photo 19-N-30507	Naval Historical Center
82k	Photographed from directly astern, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 June 1942. The actual date of the photo may be 9 June 1942. Note details of her conversion to a fast minesweeper: squared-off triangular transom, with her name visible; sweep gear and davits on the stern; depth charge tracks angled out over the propeller guards; .50 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns at the rear of her after deckhouse. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy photo 19-N-30508	Naval Historical Center
84k	Off San Francisco, California, 27 May 1943, after overhaul. U.S. Navy photo NH 97944	Naval Historical Center
67k	Off San Francisco, California, 27 May 1943, after overhaul. U.S. Navy photo NH 49821	Naval Historical Center
185k	27 May 1943 Aft plan view at Mare Island Navy Yard. Areas modified during the overhaul indicated by circles. U.S. Navy photo 3946-43	Darryl Baker
223k	27 May 1943 Forward plan view at Mare Island Navy Yard. Areas modified during the overhaul indicated by circles. U.S. Navy photo 3947-43	Darryl Baker

View the Southard (DMS-10)
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 Southard (DD-207)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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