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DD-122 / DM-18 Breese


Wickes Class Destroyer/Gamble Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 10 November 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Newport News, VA; Launched, 11 May 1918; Commissioned USS Breese, Destroyer No. 122, 23 October 1918; Designated DD-122, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 17 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer DM-18, 5 January 1931; Recommissioned, 1 June 1931; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 12 November 1937 at San Diego; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Decommissioned, 15 January 1946 at New York; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 16 May 1946. Breese received 10 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, one 3"/23, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow/Thornycroft boilers, two Curtis geared turbines, 24,200 SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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