USS Ramsay (DD-124) (DM-16)-- Part 1: At Pearl Harbor

From Wikipedia

The Ramsay was the ship one of the people at the museum at the Keep the Spirit of '45 Alive ceremony was on when Pearl Harbor was attacked. I hadn't heard of it. The person called it a destroyer, but a photo there called the ship a light minelayer.

The Ramsay was a Wickes-class destroyer commissioned in 1919, serving afterwards in the Atlantic and then the Pacific. In June 1930, it was reclassified as a light minelayer (DM-16) and homeported in Pearl Harbor.

It was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and fired its guns at the Japanese planes. It got underway at 0900 and made sound contact with a submarine at 1120. It dropped ten depth charges and saw an oil slick. It is believed that the Ranmsay either sank or damaged a mini-sub.

More to Come. --GreGen