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USS Ramsay
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USS Ramsay (DD-124) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, reclassified as DM-16 during World War II and again reclassified as AG-98. She was the first ship named for Rear Admiral Francis Ramsay.
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Name | Ramsay |
Namesake | Francis Munroe Ramsay |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 21 December 1917 |
Launched | 8 June 1918 |
Commissioned | 15 February 1919 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Identification | DD-124 |
Recommissioned | 2 June 1930 |
Decommissioned | 14 December 1937 |
Reclassified | DM-16 on 13 June 1930 |
Recommissioned | 25 September 1939 |
Decommissioned | 19 October 1945 |
Reclassified | AG-98, 5 June 1945 |
Stricken | 13 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 21 November 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,060 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 0 in (9.4 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 133 officers and enlisted |
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