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Photo # NH 766:  USS Boggs at anchor, circa 1919-1921

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USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19), 1918-1946

USS Boggs, a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, was commissioned in September 1918. She performed her initial active service in the western Atlantic during the spring and early summer of 1919, then returned to the West Coast where she operated until decommissioned in June 1922. In mid-1931 Boggs was reclassified as an auxiliary (first as IX-36 and very soon afterwards as AG-19) and converted for employment as a radio-controlled target ship. She served in this role, as well as being used for towing targets and for minesweeping, for nearly a decade. In November 1940, after being transferred to Pearl Harbor from California, she was reclassified as a high-speed minesweeper, with the new hull number DMS-3.

Boggs mainly operated out of Pearl Harbor for the first two years of World War II, performing minesweeping, patrol, towing and transportation duties. In April 1944 she joined the Operational Training Command at San Diego, California, serving as a fast target tug. She was redesignated AG-19 in June 1945 and shortly afterwards sent to the central Pacific to provide target towing services closer to the combat zone. Returning to the United States early in 1946, USS Boggs was decommissioned in March and sold for scrapping in November of that year.

USS Boggs was named in honor of Rear Admiral Charles S. Boggs (1811-1877), who commanded several ships during the Civil War and led the European Fleet in the early 1870s.

This page features, or provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19) -- Actions and Activities.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 766

    USS Boggs (DD-136)


    At anchor, circa 1919-1921.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98833

    USS Boggs
    (AG-19, formerly DD-136)

    Operating at sea as a radio controlled target, 26 March 1936.
    Note that she still wears her destroyer hull number, despite having been redesignated AG-19 nearly five years earlier.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 143KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99143

    USS Boggs
    (AG-19, formerly DD-136)

    Blowing off steam after a run while employed as a radio controlled target ship, circa 1933-1935.
    Note that she still wears the bow number "136".

    Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99144

    USS Boggs
    (AG-19, formerly DD-136)

    At rest and valving steam, while employed as a radio controlled target ship, circa 1933-1935.

    Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98834

    USS Boggs (DMS-3)


    Photographed circa early 1942, probably off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-276612

    USS Boggs (DMS-3)


    Arrives at Pearl Harbor from Canton Island, 2 March 1943.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 81406

    USS Boggs (AG-19)


    Photographed in June 1945.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106144-A

    Destroyer Division Seventeen


    Panoramic photograph of the Division's ships, taken by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, probably on 14 August 1920.
    The ships are, from left to right:
    USS Kennison (DD-138);
    USS Claxton (DD-140);
    USS Ward (DD-139);
    USS Boggs (DD-136); and
    USS Hamilton (DD-141).

    This image is copied from the original print for Photo # NH 106144.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 1200 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106144-B

    Destroyer Division Seventeen


    Panoramic photograph of the Division's ships, taken by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, probably on 14 August 1920.
    The ships are, from left to right:
    USS Kennison (DD-138);
    USS Claxton (DD-140);
    USS Ward (DD-139);
    USS Boggs (DD-136); and
    USS Hamilton (DD-141).

    This image is copied from the original print for Photo # NH 106144.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 1200 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 106144

    Destroyer Division Seventeen


    Panoramic photograph of the officers and crews of the Division's ships, photographed by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, 14 August 1920.
    Ships are, from left to right:
    USS Kennison (DD-138);
    USS Claxton (DD-140);
    USS Ward (DD-139);
    USS Boggs (DD-136); and
    USS Hamilton (DD-141).

    Photographs of the ships, nested together on probably the same date, are vignetted into the upper corners. See Photo #s NH 106144-A and NH 106144-B for separate views of these two photos.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 233KB; 2000 x 415 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Boggs (DMS-3). The following list features this image:

    The image listed below is NOT in the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."



  • Photo #: 80-G-246909
    USS Boggs (DMS-3) underway at ten knots, 23 August 1944. Photographed from a blimp of Squadron ZP-31.
    Starboard bow high aerial view.

    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


  • For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19) -- Actions and Activities.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 17 September 2002
    New images added 15 December 2008