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DD-119 / AG-21 / DMS-2 Lamberton


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down, 1 October 1917 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 30 March 1918; Commissioned USS Lamberton, Destroyer No. 119, 22 August 1918; Designated DD-119, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 16 November 1930; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-21, 16 April 1932; Reclassified High Speed Minesweeper DMS-2, 19 November 1940; Reclassified AG-21, 5 June 1946; Decommissioned, 13 December 1946 at Bremerton, WA; Struck from the Naval Register, 1947; Sold for scrapping, 3 May 1947 to National Metal and Steel Co., Terminal Island, CA. Lamberton received one battle star 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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Lamberton 107k DD-119. c. 23 December 1920. -

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Lamberton (DD-119)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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