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DD-173 / DM-13 Sproston


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down 20 April 1918 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.; Launched 10 August 1918; Commissioned USS Sproston, Destroyer No. 173, 12 July 1919; Redesignated Light Mine Layer (DM-13), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 15 August 1922; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Pearl Harbor TH; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1936; Final Disposition, sunk as a target.

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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