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DD-98 / DM-3 Israel


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 22 June 1918; Commissioned USS Israel, Destroyer No. 98, 13 September 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Redesignated Light Mine Layer (DM-3), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 7 July 1922 at Philadelphia; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadephia PA; Struck from the Naval Register 25 January 1937; Final Disopsition, sold for scrapping 18 April 1939 to Union Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore MD.

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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