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DD-146 / DMS-4 / AG-104 Elliot


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down at William Cramp and Sons', Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.; Launched, 4 July 1918; Commissioned USS Elliot, Destroyer No. 146, 26 January 1919; Designated DD-146, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 22 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 8 February 1930; Reclassified High Speed Minesweeper DMS-4, 19 November 1940; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-104, 6 June 1946; Decommissioned, 12 October 1946 at San Pedro, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 1946; Sold for scrapping, 29 January 1946. Elliot 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 gun, one dcp; Propulsion, four White-Foster boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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