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DD-136 / AG-19 / DMS-3 Boggs


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.: Launched, 25 April 1918; Commissioned USS Boggs Destroyer No. 136, 23 September 1918; Designated DD-136, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 29 June 1922; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-19, 5 September 1931; Recommissioned, 19 December 1931; Reclassified High Speed Minesweeper DMS-3, 19 November 1940; Reclassified AG-19, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 20 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 1946; Sold for scrapping, 27 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, 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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