Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Wickes |
Pennant | DMS 8 |
Mod | High speed minesweeper |
Built by | Union Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 9 Dec 1918 |
Launched | 16 May 1919 |
Commissioned | 8 Jan 1920 |
End service | 11 Oct 1945 |
History | Decommissioned on 27 May 1922 |
Commands listed for USS Stansbury (DMS 8)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. Robert Norton McFarlane, USN | 29 Aug 1940 | 21 Nov 1941 (1) |
2 | Lt. Joseph Benedict Maher, USN | 21 Nov 1941 | 6 Jan 1943 |
3 | T/Lt.Cdr. John Chapman Morgan, USN | 6 Jan 1943 | 7 Oct 1943 |
4 | Lt.Cdr. Donald Martin Granstrom, USN | 7 Oct 1943 | 8 May 1945 (1) |
5 | Lt.Cdr. Andrew Morthland, USNR | 11 May 1945 | 11 Dec 1945 |
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Notable events involving Stansbury include:
1 Jul 1942
USS Stansbury picks up 372 survivors of the American passenger ship City of Birmingham that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-202 some 250 miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35°10'N, 70°53'W.
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