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DD-206 / DMS-9 / AG-108 Chandler


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at 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 High Speed Minesweeper DMS-9, 19 November 1940; Reclassified a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-108, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 21 November 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 18 November 1946. Chandler received eight battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50s, two 3"/23s, three .30 cal. machine guns, one dcp; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, 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.
US Navy photo # 80-G-32544
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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