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DD-161 / DMS-5 Palmer


Wickes Class Destroyer: Laid down, 29 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, MA; Launched, 18 August 1918; Commissioned USS Palmer, Destroyer No. 161, 22 November 1918; Designated DD-161, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 31 May 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 7 August 1940; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-5, 19 November 1940; Lost to enemy action, 7 January 1945 at Lingayen Gulf, PI; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 February 1945. Palmer received five 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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Palmer 175k Location unknown. Date, possibly shortly after refitting as DMS-5 from DD-161.
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Everett N. Schrader SoM1/c, former crew member of USS Ira Jeffery DE-63.

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