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Hamilton (AG 111)
ex-DMS-18
ex-DD-141



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Bravo - Quebec
Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 8 June 1918 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Launched 15 January 1919; Commissioned USS Hamilton, Destroyer No. 141, 17 November 1919; Designated DD-141, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 20 July 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned 20 January 1930; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-18, 17 October 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-111, 6 May 1945; Decommissioned 16 October 1945 at San Diego; Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1945; Sold for scrap 21 November 1946 to Hugo New of New York, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 11' 4"; Speed 32.5 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 cal. dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three Normand boilers, two 26,000shp New York Shipbuilding Co. (Parsons design) turbines, Mare Island Navy Yard single reduction gears, two shafts.

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USS Hamilton (DD 141)
Hamilton 144k The Hamilton (DD-141) during June or July 1940, newly reconfigured for active tank stabilization system trials. The small deckhouses on either side of the main deck between the bridge structure and the forwardmost remaining funnel contained equipment for an experimental Sperry gyroscopic autoPilot; below them in the former boiler room number 1 were the tanks, pumps, and ducting for the Minorski stabilization system.
Mariners' Museum photo from the December 2004 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
USS Hamilton (DMS 18)
Hamilton 105k The Hamilton (DMS-18) displays her unique funnel configuration on 20 September 1942 after completing a short refit at Norfolk Navy Yard, where her four 4-inch/50-cal. low-angle guns were replaced by dual-purpose 3-inch/50-cal. mountings. The ship retained the armament of four 3-inch guns, five 20-mm antiaircraft guns, two depth charge racks, and two depth charge mortars for the remainder of her career. While attached to the Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island during the mid-1930s, the Hamilton had had the forward 4-inch gun temporarily replaced by a fifth triple torpedo tube mounting; two of the four normal triple sets were removed late in 1940 and the others during her minesweeper conversion.
U.S. Navy photo from the December 2004 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
Hamilton 96k Hamilton minesweeping on the morning of 17 February 1945 prior to the UDT operation at Iwo Jima.
National Archives photo		 Bill Brinkley
Hamilton 108k Hamilton minesweeping on the morning of 17 February 1945 prior to the UDT operation at Iwo Jima.
National Archives photo		 Bill Brinkley
Hamilton 112k Hamilton minesweeping on the morning of 17 February 1945 prior to the UDT operation at Iwo Jima.
National Archives photo		 Bill Brinkley
Hamilton 101k Hamilton minesweeping on the morning of 17 February 1945 prior to the UDT operation at Iwo Jima.
National Archives photo		 Bill Brinkley
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