USS Hovey (DMS 11)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DMS 11
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	7 Sep 1918
Launched	26 Apr 1919
Commissioned	2 Oct 1919
Lost	6 Jan 1945
Loss position	16° 20'N, 120° 10'E
	The American destroyer USS Hovey (DMS 11) lost on 6 Jan 1945 in position 16° 20'N, 120° 10'E.
History	Decommissioned on 1 February 1923 Recommissioned on 20 February 1930 Reclassified as high speed minesweeper DMS-11 on 19 November 1940 Sunk by Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf in position 16º20'N, 120º10'E there were 24 casualties among her crew

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Rufus Edwards Rose, USN	18 Apr 1939	15 Jan 1940
2	John Edwards Florance, USN	15 Jan 1940	16 Dec 1941
3	Wilton Stewart Heald, USN	16 Dec 1941	21 Sep 1942
4	Lt. Edwin Anderson McDonald, USN	21 Sep 1942	24 Jan 1944
5	Asa Allan Clark, III, USN	24 Jan 1944	22 Dec 1944 (1)
6	Benjamin Nooe Cole, USNR	22 Dec 1944	6 Jan 1945

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