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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

DD-146 / DMS-4 / AG-104 Elliot



Call sign:
November - Echo - Romeo - Victor

Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at William Cramp and Sons' Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.; Launched, 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Elliot (Destroyer No. 146), 26 January 1919; Designated DD-146, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 22 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 8 February 1930; Reclassified as a High Speed Minesweeper DMS-4, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-104, 6 June 1946; Decommissioned, 12 October 1946 at San Pedro, CA; Struck from the Naval Register in 1946; Sold for scrapping, 29 January 1946.

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 gun, one dcp; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.


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Elliot 166k Plan view, aft, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
USN Photo NH 98640
Naval Historical Center
Elliot 169k Plan view, forward, taken from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 27 October 1942. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
USN Photo NH 98643
Naval Historical Center
Elliot 66k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.
USN Photo NH 83216
Naval Historical Center
Elliot 78k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 83216
Naval Historical Center
Elliot 86k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 98640
Naval Historical Center
Elliot 84k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 29 October 1942.
USN Photo NH 98640
Naval Historical Center

View the Elliot (DMS-4)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Elliot (DD-146)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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