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DD-209 / DMS-12 Long


Clemson Class Destroyer: Laid down, 23 September 1918 at William Cramp and Sons' Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 26 April 1919; Commissioned USS Long, Destroyer No. 209, 2 October 1919; Designated DD-209, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 December 1922 at San Diego; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 29 March 1930 at San Diego, CA; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-12, 19 November 1940; Lost to enemy action, 6 January 1945, Lingayen Gulf; Struck from the Naval Register, 23 February 1945. Long received nine battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 122; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow, Thornycroft or White-Forster boilers, two geared turbines, 27,000SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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