USS Boggs
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USS Boggs (DD–136) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, later redesignated as AG-19 and then as DMS-3, and back again to AG-19. She was the first ship named for Admiral Charles Boggs.
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USS Boggs in June 1945 | |
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United States | |
Name | Boggs |
Namesake | Charles Boggs |
Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
Cost | $2,455,952.79 (hull & machinery)[1] |
Laid down | 15 November 1917 |
Launched | 25 April 1918 |
Commissioned | 23 September 1918 |
Decommissioned | 29 June 1922 |
Reclassified | AG-19, 5 September 1931 |
Recommissioned | 19 December 1931 |
Decommissioned | 20 March 1946 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 12 April 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 27 November 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,154 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
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