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USS Ramsay (DM 16)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DM 16
Mod	Destroyer minelayer
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	21 Dec 1917
Launched	8 Jun 1918
Commissioned	15 Feb 1919
End service
History	Decommissioned on 30 June 1922. Recommissioned on 2 June 1930. Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-16 on 13 June 1930. Decommissioned on 19 October 1945. Stricken on 13 November 1945. Sold to be broken up for scrap 21 November 1946.

Commands listed for USS Ramsay (DM 16)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Robert Lee Porter, Jr., USN	26 May 1936	25 Sep 1939
2	Lt.Cdr. Hubert Montgomery Hayter, USN	25 Sep 1939	5 Feb 1941 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Gelzer Loyall Sims, USN	5 Feb 1941	21 Jan 1942 (1)
4	T/Lt.Cdr. Charles Helmick Crighton, USN	21 Jan 1942	4 Jul 1943
5	T/Lt.Cdr. Robert Henderson Holmes, USN	4 Jul 1943	26 Aug 1944
6	Lt. Roy Robert Pollard, USNR	26 Aug 1944	27 Jun 1945
7	Donald James Mitchell, USNR	27 Jun 1945	14 Jul 1945
8	Paul Edward Keating, USNR	14 Jul 1945	19 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Ramsay include:

16 Oct 1944
During 16/17 October 1944, the submarines USS Skipjack (T/Cdr. R.S. Andrews, USN), USS Swordfish (T/Cdr. K.E. Montross, USN), USS Albacore (T/Lt.Cdr. H.R. Rimmer, USN), USS Peto (T/Cdr. R.H. Caldwell, Jr., USN), USS Dragonet (T/Cdr. J.H. Lewis, USN) all conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour. These included night exercises. Also participating in these exercises were the destroyer minelayer USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR) and the destroyer escorts USS Connolly (Lt.Cdr. W.A. Collier, USNR) and USS Hemminger (Lt.Cdr. J.R. Bodler, USNR)

1 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR).

2 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR), USS Whitman (Lt. E.A. Sandor, USNR) and USS Tench (Cdr. W.B. Sieglaff, USN).

3 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR), USS Whitman (Lt. E.A. Sandor, USNR) and USS Tench (Cdr. W.B. Sieglaff, USN).

7 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR) and USS PC-599 (Lt. J.M. Kindt, USNR).

8 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR) and USS PC-599 (Lt. J.M. Kindt, USNR).

9 Feb 1945
USS Chub (Cdr. C.D. Rhymes, Jr., USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Ramsay (Lt. R.R. Pollard, Jr., USNR) and USS PC-599 (Lt. J.M. Kindt, USNR).