USS Boggs (DMS 3)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DMS 3
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	15 Nov 1917
Launched	25 Apr 1918
Commissioned	23 Sep 1918
End service	30 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.

Please note that we're still working on this section
and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Edwin Thomas Layton, USN	28 Apr 1939	1 Apr 1941 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. David Gillies Roberts, USN	1 Apr 1941	20 Mar 1942
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Frank Paull Mitchell, Jr., USN	20 Mar 1942	16 Jun 1943
4	T/Cdr. Howard Riche Prince, USN	16 Jun 1943	13 Mar 1944
5	Lt.Cdr. William K Chisholm, USNR	13 Mar 1944	19 Nov 1944
6	Ralph Lee Roy Johnson, USN	19 Nov 1944	13 Dec 1945

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