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DD-180 / DMS-8 / AG-107 Stansbury


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down, 9 December 1918 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., San Francisco, CA; Launched, 16 May 1919; Commissioned USS Stansbury, Destroyer No. 180, 8 January 1920 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA ; Designated DD-180, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 27 May 1922 at San Diego, Ca; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 29 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-8, 19 November 1940; Reclassified a Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-107, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 11 December 1945 at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA ; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January 1946; Sold for scrapping 26 October 1946 to Luria Bros. Co., Philadelphia, PA. Stansbury receieved three battle stars for World War II service.

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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