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USS Stansbury (DMS 8)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DMS 8
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	Union Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	9 Dec 1918
Launched	16 May 1919
Commissioned	8 Jan 1920
End service	11 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned on 27 May 1922 Recommissioned on 29 August 1940 Reclassified as high speed minesweeper DMS-8 on 19 November 1940 Reclassified as Auxiliary AG-107 on 5 June 1945 . Decommissioned on 11 October 1945 Stricken on 3 January 1946 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 26 October 1946.

Commands listed for USS Stansbury (DMS 8)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Robert Norton McFarlane, USN	29 Aug 1940	21 Nov 1941 (1)
2	Lt. Joseph Benedict Maher, USN	21 Nov 1941	6 Jan 1943
3	T/Lt.Cdr. John Chapman Morgan, USN	6 Jan 1943	7 Oct 1943
4	Lt.Cdr. Donald Martin Granstrom, USN	7 Oct 1943	8 May 1945 (1)
5	Lt.Cdr. Andrew Morthland, USNR	11 May 1945	11 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Stansbury include:

1 Jul 1942
USS Stansbury picks up 372 survivors of the American passenger ship City of Birmingham that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-202 some 250 miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35°10'N, 70°53'W.