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Long (DMS 12)
ex-DD-209
ex-Destroyer No. 209



Call sign:
November - Echo - Papa - Delta

Sunk 6 January 1945
Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 23 September 1918 at William Cramp and Sons' Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 26 April 1919; Commissioned USS Long, Destroyer No. 209, 2 October 1919; Designated DD-209, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 December 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Recommissioned, 29 March 1930 at San Diego; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-12, 19 November 1940; Lost to enemy action 6 January 1945 at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 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 Cramp and Sons geared turbines, 27,000shp at 35 kts,
two shafts.

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Long 183k Aft plan view of the Long at Mare Island Navy Yard on 30 October 1943 at the conclusion of her overhaul at the yard which started on 27 September 1943. The USS Trepang (SS 412) is on the building ways behind the Long.
U.S. Navy photo 7373-43		 Darryl Baker
Long 101k Stern view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7404-43		 Darryl Baker
Long 152k Broadside view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7406-43		 Darryl Baker
Long 92k Bow on view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7408-43		 Darryl Baker
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