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Long (DMS 12)
ex-DD-209
ex-Destroyer No. 209

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Peter - Dog

Sunk 6 January 1945

Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper:

Laid down 23 September 1918 at William Cramp and Sons' Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA

Launched 26 April 1919

Commissioned USS Long, Destroyer No. 209, 2 October 1919

Designated DD-209, 17 July 1920

Decommissioned 30 December 1922 at San Diego, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego

Recommissioned 29 March 1930 at San Diego

Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-12, 19 November 1940

Lost to enemy action 6 January 1945 at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Struck from the Naval Register 23 February 1945.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,190 t.(lt), 1,308 t.(fl)

Length 314' 4"

Beam 30' 10"

Draft 9' 10"

Speed 35.8 kts.

Complement 122

Armament: Four 4"/50 mounts, one 3"/23 gun mount and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Four Yarrow, Thornycroft or White-Forster boilers, two 27,000shp Cramp and Sons geared turbines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
11091210	6.94k	Booklet of General Plans - 1st Platform Deck / Hold, 19 May 1919 & updated 29 October 1943.	National Archives Identifier: 167817708 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
11091211	8.03k	Booklet of General Plans - General Information / General Dimensions & Data, 19 May 1919 & updated 29 October 1943.	National Archives Identifier: 167817702 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
11091212	6.95k	Booklet of General Plans - Inboard Profile / Outboard Profil, 19 May 1919 & updated 29 October 1943.	National Archives Identifier: 167817704 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov, via Daniel Hacker.
11091206	NR	Was The Navy's Face Red! Shirley Dale, 26, above, almost became that rare bird—a woman stowaway on a U. S. man-of-war. Because it was “downright cold" in Flint, Mich., she hitch-hiked to comfortable California, then felt an urge for even warmer weather. Found hiding behind motors of the destroyer Long (DD-208) in San Diego harbor few minutes before it weighed anchor for Hawaii, she said getting aboard was “easy”—all she did was to take shoreboat to ship with a group of sailors and slip into the engine room.	Image and text provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT. Text by The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 03 February 1941, Image 5, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	183k	Aft plan view of the Long at Mare Island Navy Yard on 30 October 1943 at the conclusion of her overhaul at the yard which started on 27 September 1943. The USS Trepang (SS 412) is on the building ways behind the Long U.S. Navy photo 7373-43	Darryl Baker
	101k	Stern view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943. U.S. Navy photo 7404-43
	152k	Broadside view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943. U.S. Navy photo 7406-43
	92k	Bow on view of the Long off San Francisco on 30 October 1943. U.S. Navy photo 7408-43
	110k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 30 October 1943 U.S. Navy photo 7407-43 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107304	Robert Hurst
11091208	NR	10th Carrier Of War Sunk The Ommaney Bay (CVE-79), a 10,000 ton aircraft carrier has been sunk in the Pacific after a short but violent career. She was the lOlh U. S. Carrier sunk In World War II. The Navy told her story last night in announcing the loss of both the *Ommaney Bay* and the fast mine sweeper Long (DMS-12). It did not say exactly how they met their end but acknowledged it was through "enemy action." Loss of the two ships brought to 261 the total U. S. Naval losses in the war.	Image and text provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT. Text by The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 14 February 1945, Image 4, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
11091209	182k	Last CO of the Long (DMS-12), Lt. Stanley B. Caplan in his later years. He was perhaps best known for his breif command as SOPA of the destroyer Alywin (DD-355) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.	Image provided by findagrave.com
11091207	785k	Leonard Clifton King. WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY AT SEA. ASIATIC AREA, ATTACHED USS LONG. HE STANDS IN THE UNBROKEN LINE OF PATRIOTS. WHO HAVE DARED TO DIE THAT FREEDOM MIGHT LIVE. In Memorium: In the Second Book of Shmuel (Samuel), 22nd chapter, 5th through the 20th verses, translated from the original in Hebrew and published by the Koren Publishers of Jerusalem, Israel, 1982, can perhaps aptly describe the fate of the crew and all other U.S. sailors who died defending their county: "When the waves of death compassed me / the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; / the bonds of She'ol encircled me; / the snares of death took me by surprise; / in my distress I called upon the Lord, / and cried to my G-D: / and he heard my voice out of his temple, / and my cry entered into his ears. / Then the earth shook and trembled; /the foundations of heaven moved / and shook because of his anger /...the heavy mass of waters, and thick clouds of the skies /... And the channels of the sea appeared, / the foundations of the world were laid bare, / at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast at the breath of his nostrils. / He sent from above, he took me; / he drew me out of many waters; / he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me. / They surprised me in the day of my calamity: / but the Lord was my stay..."	Image provided by findagrave.com