USS Barney
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Barney |
Namesake | Joshua Barney |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Cost | $1,448,398.36 (hull and machinery)[1] |
Yard number | 464 |
Laid down | 26 March 1918 |
Launched | 5 September 1918 |
Commissioned | 14 March 1919 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Identification | DD-149 |
Recommissioned | 1 May 1930 |
Decommissioned | 30 November 1945 |
Reclassified | AG-113, 30 June 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 13 October 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,154 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 0 in (2.7 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 133 officers and enlisted |
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USS Barney (DD–149) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II, later redesignated AG-113. She was the second ship named for Commodore Joshua Barney.
Barney was launched on 5 September 1918 by William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, sponsored by Miss Nannie Dornin Barney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Barney. The ship was commissioned on 14 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander James L. Kauffman in command.