USS Chandler (DMS 9)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DMS 9
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	19 Aug 1918
Launched	19 Mar 1919
Commissioned	5 Sep 1919
End service	21 Nov 1945
History	Decommissioned on 20 October 1922 Recommissioned on 31 March 1930 Reclassified as high speed minesweeper DMS-9 on 19 November 1940 Reclassified as Auxiliary AG-108 on 5 June 1945 Decommissioned on 21 November 1945 Stricken on 5 December 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 November 1946

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Harold Herman Tiemroth, USN	12 Jul 1939	20 Apr 1942
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Jack Sidney Dorsey, USN	20 Apr 1942	20 Apr 1943
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Harry LeRoy Thompson, Jr., USN	20 Apr 1943	10 Aug 1944
4	Lt. Frank Murray Murphy, USNR	10 Aug 1944	1 Jul 1945
5	Ungar Irwin, USNR	1 Jul 1945	21 Nov 1945

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