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DD-121 / DM-17 Montgomery


Wickes Class Destroyer/Gamble Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 2 October 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 23 March 1918; Commissioned USS Montgomery, Destroyer No. 121, 26 July 1918; Designated DD-121, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 6 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer DM-17, 5 January 1931; Recommissioned, 20 August 1931; Decommissioned, 7 December 1937 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Decommissioned, 23 April 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1945; Sold for scrapping, 11 March 1946. Montgomery received four 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, one 3"/23, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow/Thornycroft boilers, two Curtis geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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Montgomery 87k - -
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Montgomery 63k c. 1940 -

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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Montgomery (DD-121)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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