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DD-171 / DM-11 Burns


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.; Launched 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Burns, Destroyer No. 171, 7 August 1919; Redesignated (DD-171), 17 July 1920; Converted to a Light Mine Layer and redesigned (DM-11), 15 March 1921; Decommissioned 2 June 1930 at San Diego CA; Towed to Mare Island Navy Yard for use as a barracks ship; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 22 April 1932.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4", two 1-pdrs, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts.
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