Allied Warships

USS Stansbury (DMS 8)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDMS 8 
Built byUnion Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down9 Dec 1918 
Launched16 May 1919 
Commissioned8 Jan 1920 
End service11 Oct 1945 
Loss position
 
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)

Please note that we're still working on this section.

CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Robert Norton McFarlane, USN29 Aug 1940???

2Lt.Cdr. Donald Martin Granstrom, USNSep 1943May 1945

You can help improve our commands section
Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel.
Please use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve this ships page.

Noteable 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 the German submarine U-202 some 250 miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35.10N, 70.53W.

Return to the Allied Warships section