Allied Warships

USS Boggs (DMS 3)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDMS 3 
ModHigh speed minesweeper 
Built byMare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Nov 1917 
Launched25 Apr 1918 
Commissioned23 Sep 1918 
End service30 Mar 1946 
History

Decommissioned on 29 June 1922.
Recommissioned on 19 December 1931.
Reclassified as light target number 2 IX-36(later AG-19) on 11 August 1931.
Converted to high speed minesweeper DMS-3 on recomissioned as such on 19 November 1940.
Reclassified AG-19 on 5 June 1945.
Decommissioned on 30 March 1946.
Stricken on 12 April 1946.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 27 November 1946.

 

Commands listed for USS Boggs (DMS 3)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Edwin Thomas Layton, USN28 Apr 19391 Apr 1941 (1)
2Lt.Cdr. David Gillies Roberts, USN1 Apr 194120 Mar 1942
3T/Lt.Cdr. Frank Paull Mitchell, Jr., USN20 Mar 194216 Jun 1943
4T/Cdr. Howard Riche Prince, USN16 Jun 194313 Mar 1944
5Lt.Cdr. William K Chisholm, USNR13 Mar 194419 Nov 1944
6Ralph Lee Roy Johnson, USN19 Nov 194413 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Boggs include:


7 May 1943
USS Sailfish (T/Cdr. J.R. Moore, USN) and USS Finback (T/Lt.Cdr. J.A. Tyree, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour with USS Boggs (T/Cdr. F.P. Mitchell, Jr., USN). (2)

8 May 1943
During 8/9 May 1943, USS Sailfish (T/Cdr. J.R. Moore, USN) and USS Finback (T/Lt.Cdr. J.A. Tyree, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour with USS Boggs (T/Cdr. F.P. Mitchell, Jr., USN) and USS Seagull (T/Lt. F.L. van Camp, USN).

On completion of the days exercises on the 8th, USS Sailfish and USS Seagull returned to harbour but they rejoined the following morning. (2)

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore

Sources

  1. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/136.htm
  2. War diary 14th Naval District for May 1943 + War diary USS Boggs for May 1943

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