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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Hovey (DMS 11)
ex-DD-208

Call sign:
November - Echo - Papa - Bravo

Sunk 7 January 1945

Clemson Class Destroyer: Laid down 7 September 1918 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 26 April 1919; Commissioned USS Hovey, Destroyer No. 208, 2 October 1919; Designated DD-208, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 1 February 1923 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 20 February 1930; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-11, 19 November 1940; Lost to enemy action 7 January 1945 at Lingayen Gulf; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 February 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 122; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow, Thornycroft or White-Forster boilers, two geared turbines, 27,000shp at 35 kts., two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
70k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 7 June 1942. Note that she retained four smokestacks at this time. U.S. Navy photo NH 99560	Naval Historical Center
67k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 7 June 1942. The ship retains her original four tall smokestacks, pre-war type pilothouse and tall foremast. She appears to carry twin 4"/50 gun mounts fore and aft and eight .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy photo 19-N-30499	Naval Historical Center
63k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 7 June 1942. The ship appears to have twin 4"/50 gun mount forward, with a hinged sponson by it to allow a greater working circle for the gun crew. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Navy photo 19-N-30500	Naval Historical Center
71k	Plan view, forward, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 May 1943. USS LST-485 is in the left background. White outlines mark recent alterations to Hovey. U.S. Navy photo NH 99565	Naval Historical Center
143k	Plan view, amidships, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 May 1943. Tracks on deck are for shifting weights during an inclining experiment to determine the ship's stability. USS LST-485 is in the background. White outlines mark recent alterations to Hovey. U.S. Navy photo NH 99566	Naval Historical Center
138k	Plan view, amidships looking aft, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 May 1943. USS LST-485 (left) and USS LST-481 are in the background. White outlines mark recent alterations to Hovey, among them, 20mm guns and minesweeping gear. U.S. Navy photo NH 995670	Naval Historical Center
110k	Plan view, aft, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 May 1943. The bow of USS LST-485 is visible in the right background. White outlines mark recent alterations to Hovey. U.S. Navy photo NH 99568	Naval Historical Center
62k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 May 1943. U.S. Navy photo NH 99561	Naval Historical Center
68k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 May 1943. U.S. Navy photo NH 99562	Naval Historical Center
72k	Seen from astern, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 May 1943. U.S. Navy photo NH 99560	Naval Historical Center
69k	Seen from ahead, off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 May 1943. U.S. Navy photo NH 99560	Naval Historical Center