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Allied Warships

USS Barney (DD 149)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 149 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 Mar, 1918 
Launched5 Sep, 1918 
Commissioned14 Mar, 1919 
End service30 Nov, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 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 

Noteable 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 11º25'N, 62º18'W by the German submarine 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 10º41'N, 60º24'W by the German submarine U-515.


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