Allied Warships

USS Barney (DD 149)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 149
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	26 Mar 1918
Launched	5 Sep 1918
Commissioned	14 Mar 1919
End service	30 Nov 1945
History	Decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 30 June 1922 Recommissioned 1 May 1930 Decommissioned in November 1936 Recommissioned on 4 October 1939 Reclassified as AG-113 on 30 June 1945 Decommissioned 30 November 1945 Stricken 19 December 1945 Sold 31 October 1946 and broken up for scrap

Commands listed for USS Barney (DD 149)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. John Harvey Long, USN	4 Oct 1939	16 May 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Thomas Francis Conley, Jr., USN	16 May 1941	1 Dec 1942
3	T/Cdr. Lester Orin Wood, USN	1 Dec 1942	11 Aug 1943
4	Herbert Douglas Sprenger, USNR	11 Aug 1943	24 May 1944
5	Elmer Robert Mecleary, USNR	24 May 1944	25 Apr 1945
6	Walter Albert Schaefer, USNR	25 Apr 1945	13 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Barney include:

20 May 1942
USS Barney picks up 43 survivors from the Panamanian tanker Sylvan Arrow that was torpedoed and sunk north-west of Trinidad in position 11°25'N, 62°18'W by German U-boat U-155.

13 Sep 1942
USS Barney picks up 12 survivors from the Panamanian merchant Nimba that was torpedoed and sunk east of Trinidad in position 10°41'N, 60°24'W by German U-boat U-515.

23 Apr 1945
USS Catfish (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Overton, USNR) conducted exercises in Long Island Sound together with USS Breckinridge (Lt.Cdr. W.J. van Meter, USN) and USS Barney (Lt.Cdr. E.R. Mecleary, USNR).

24 Apr 1945
USS Catfish (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Overton, USNR) conducted exercises in Long Island Sound together with USS Breckinridge (Lt.Cdr. W.J. van Meter, USN) and USS Barney (Lt.Cdr. E.R. Mecleary, USNR).