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Boggs (DD 136)
Light Target #2 (IX 36)
Boggs (AG 19) / (DMS 3)



DMS-3 call sign:
November - Alpha - Mike - Tango

Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA, (date unknown): Launched, 25 April 1918; Commissioned USS Boggs (Destroyer No. 136), 23 September 1918; Designated DD-136, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 29 June 1922; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary IX-36 and named Light Target #2, 11 August 1931; Renamed Boggs and reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-19, 5 September 1931; Recommissioned, 19 December 1931; Reclassified as a High Speed Minesweeper DMS-3, 19 November 1940; Again reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-19, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 20 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in 1946; Sold for scrapping, 27 November 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 guns, one dcp; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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Boggs 68k DD-136 at anchor, circa 1919-1921.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 766
Naval Historical Center
Boggs 148k AG-19 operating at sea as a radio controlled target, 26 March 1936. Note that she still wears her destroyer hull number, despite having been redesignated AG-19 nearly five years earlier.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 98833
Naval Historical Center
Boggs 35k DMS-3 photographed circa early 1942, probably off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 98834
Naval Historical Center
Boggs 74k DMS-3 arrives at Pearl Harbor from Canton Island, 2 March 1943.
U.S. Navy Photo 80-G-276612
Naval Historical Center
Boggs 151k AG-19 photographed in June 1945.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 81406
Naval Historical Center

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Boggs (DD-136)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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