USS Stansbury, a 1060-ton Little class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was placed in commission in January 1920. Designated DD-180 when the Navy implemented its hull number system in July of that year, the destroyer served along the Pacific Coast until May 1922, when she was decommissioned and laid up at San Diego, California. Stansbury remained inactive for more than eighteen years, returning to commissioned status in August 1940, when the crisis generated by World War II in Europe necessitated strengthening the Nation's defenses.
Soon after recommissioning, Stansbury began conversion to a high-speed minesweeper. Redesignated DMS-8 in November 1940, she was assigned to duty in the Atlantic, performing patrol and minesweeping service until the United States formally entered the war in December 1941, and thereafter adding escort work to her missions. At the end of June 1942 she rescued nearly over three hundred survivors of the torpedoed steamer City of Birmingham, and in November she participated in the landings at Fedala, Morocco.
In December 1943, following another year of service along the East Coast and in the north Atlantic, Stansbury was transferred to the Pacific, where she continued escort and patrol work, as well as participating in several amphibious operations. Among the latter were the assaults on Kwajalein in January and February 1944, the Admiralty Islands in April and the Marianas in June and July.
Stansbury went to California in August 1944 for an overhaul that lasted until early 1945. She was thereafter employed as a training ship in West Coast waters, and was redesignated AG-107 in June. In September 1945, soon after the end of the Pacific War, the old ship returned to the Atlantic by way of the Panama Canal. Decommissioned in December 1945, Stansbury was sold for scrapping in October 1946.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Stansbury (Destroyer # 180, later DD-180, DMS-8 and AG-107).
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Photo #: NH 69454 USS Stansbury (DD-180) Underway, circa 1920. Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 625 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 106392 USS Stansbury (DD-180) In port, 1921. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 43KB; 740 x 430 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 100960 USS Stansbury (DD-180) Underway off San Diego, California, circa 1920-1922, while serving with Destroyer Division 22. Photographed by O.W. Waterman. Courtesy of Carter Rila, 1986. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 470 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42539 "Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # NH 42539 (complete caption). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 515 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 69513 Destroyers laid up in reserve At San Diego, California, probably in 1922 or shortly thereafter. Ships nearest the camera are: USS Palmer (DD-161), in left center; USS Crane (DD-109), in right center; and USS Stansbury (DD-180), at right. Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Stansbury (DMS-8). The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
USS Stansbury (DMS-8) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 22 December 1941. Close up view of the ship's port side, from her forward gun to just short of the after end of her midships deck house. She is painted in pattern camouflage and still carries 4"/40 guns. Her smokestacks (the two forward ones are visible) have been cut down and a funnel cap is fitted to the forward stack. USS Stansbury (DMS-8) in a harbor. Photo is marked "Rec'd 11 Sept. 1944" and was probably taken in 1943 or 1944. Starboard broadside surface view. The ship is painted in horizontal "two-tone" camouflage (probably Measure 22) and carries 3"/50s as her main battery guns.
Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval History and Heritage Command. The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval History and Heritage Command's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 2 April 2004
New image added 28 February 2009