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DD-124 / DM-16 /AG-98 Ramsay



DM-16 call sign:
November - India - Foxtrot - Charlie



Wickes Class Destroyer/Gamble Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 21 December 1917 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 8 June 1918; Commissioned USS Ramsay, Destroyer No. 124, 15 February 1919; Designated DD-124, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 2 June 1930; Converted to a Light Mine Layer, redesignated DM-16, 13 June 1930; Decommissioned, 14 December 1937 at San Diego; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Redesignated Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-98, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 19 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1945; Sold for scrapping, 21 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, one 3"/23, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow/Thornycroft boilers, two Curtis geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts.
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Montgomery 150k Nested portside to Montgomery (DM 17), with Gamble (DM 15) to Ramsay's port. Note her bow number just visible. .
Ramsay 39k DM-16 configuration at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. From the widow of Delmar Aldrich, Pearl Harbor Survivor.
(via Jon Burdett

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Ramsey (DD-124)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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