Allied Warships

USS Ramsay (DM 16)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDM 16 
Built byNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down21 Dec 1917 
Launched8 Jun 1918 
Commissioned15 Feb 1919 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned on 30 June 1922.
Recommissioned on 2 June 1930.
Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-16 on 13 June 1930.
Decommissioned on 19 October 1945.
Stricken on 13 November 1945.
Sold to be broken up for scrap 21 November 1946.

 

Commands listed for USS Ramsay (DM 16)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Hubert Montgomery Hayter, USN1939???

2Lt.Cdr. Gelzer Loyall Sims, USN1941???

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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

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