George Trever
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 United States
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| Namesake: | Lt. Cmdr. George A. Trever |
| Builder: | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 12 August 1919 |
| Launched: | 15 September 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 3 August 1922 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 5 December 1945 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping, 12 November 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,308 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet 4 1⁄2 inches (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 30 feet 11 1⁄2 inches (9.436 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet 10 inches (3.00 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) tt. |
USS Trever (DD-339/DMS-16/AG-110) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named in memory of Lt. Cmdr. George A. Trever.
Trever was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard. She launched on 15 September 1920, sponsored by Mrs. Bess McMillan Trever (George Trever's widow) and was commissioned on 3 August 1922, Lieutenant H. E. Snow in command.
After shakedown, Trever was taken out of commission between January 1923 and June 1930. The ship was recalled to active duty on 2 June 1930, operating out of San Diego with the Battle Force. She was reclassified as a high-speed minesweeper and redesignated DMS-16 on 19 November 1940, after which she was based at Pearl Harbor in 1941 as part of the Base Force, United States Fleet.
Trever was actively involved in naval operations in the Pacific throughout World War II.
On the morning of 7 December 1941 when Imperial Japan launched its aircraft in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Trever was moored in West Loch with the minesweeping ships Zane (DMS-14), Wasmuth (DMS-15), and Perry (DMS-17). She engaged the aircraft with her .50-caliber Browning machine guns was solely responsible for shooting one down, and contributed (with her sister ships) to another plane's demise. She extremely hurriedly sortied to sea, under the command of the captain of Henley (DD-391), as many commanding officers were not able to reach their ships before sortie. Trever's commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Agnew, who had gone to sea on board the Wasmuth, was able to rejoin his ship later that day. Trever spent the rest of the year, and beginning of the next, conducting minesweeping operations, local escort missions and antisubmarine patrols.
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