USS Trever, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built by the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Commissioned in early August 1922, she served briefly along the west coast before being placed in reserve in January 1923. She returned to commissioned status in June 1930 and operated with the Battle Force for the next decade.
In November 1940, Trever was redesignated a high-speed minesweeper with the new hull number DMS-16. After conversion to this new role, she was based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was present when the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet there on 7 December 1941. Over the next few months, she carried out minesweeping, escort and anti-submarine patrol missions in the Hawaii area. Trever was given a shipyard overhaul in April-June 1942, then went to the south Pacific, where she arrived in time to participate in the landings at Tulagi and Guadalcanal on 7-9 August.
For the rest of 1942 and into 1943, Trever supported the campaign to hold Guadalcanal, conducting escort and resupply missions to and from that bitterly-contested island. In company with USS Zane (DMS-14) off Guadalcanal on 25 October, she narrowly escaped an attack by faster and much-better-armed Japanese destroyers.
Trever was heavily involved in the Central Solomons Campaign during much of 1943, with escort work predominating through June, followed by participation in the New Georgia and Rendova invasions and subsequent operations. She escorted the torpedo-damaged cruiser Honolulu (CL-48) back to Pearl Harbor in August. Employed on escort and target-towing duties in the central and south Pacific during the rest of 1943 and all of 1944, she was damaged in a typhoon on 18 December 1944. After repairs and overhaul, she was based at Pearl Harbor for the rest of the Pacific War. The old ship was reclassified as a miscellaneous auxiliary in June 1945 and given the hull number AG-110. She transited the Panama Canal to the east coast in October 1945 and was decommissioned in November. USS Trever was sold for scrapping in November 1946.
This page features all the views we have of USS Trever (DD-339, later DMS-16 and AG-110).
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Photo #: NH 49807 USS Trever (DD-339) Off the California coast while serving with Destroyer Division 10, Battle Force, circa 1931. Photographed by Bunnell, San Diego, California. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 97789 USS Trever (DMS-16) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 June 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 97790 USS Trever (DMS-16) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 June 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 625 pixels Note: This photograph is rather "fuzzy". |
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Photo #: NH 78220 USS Trever (DMS-16) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 3 October 1943. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute's James C. Fahey Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 500 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 97788 USS Trever (DMS-16) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 3 October 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-372088 USS Trever (AG-110) Towing a target in the Pearl Harbor entrance channel,. Photograph was from USS Denebola (AD-12). It is dated June 1944, but was probably taken a year later. Note the anti-submarine gate partially closing the channel beyond Trever. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-455906 Balboa Harbor, Panama Canal Zone Aerial photograph taken 23 April 1934, with U.S. Fleet cruisers and destroyers moored together. Most of the ships present are identified in Photo # 80-G-455906 (extended caption). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 298KB; 1200 x 970 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 51846 USS Trever (DD-339) (at left) Follows USS Zane (DD-337) -- in the center -- and USS Borie (DD-215) as they make a high speed turn at Kelp Point, off Hecate Island, during their 1937 Alaska cruise. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-52319 USS Trever (DMS-16) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of an overhaul, 2 October 1943. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket launchers on her forecastle; 3"/50 gun at high elevation; bridge details; and radar antennas. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 101KB; 595 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-52318 USS Trever (DMS-16) View of the ship's after deckhouse and fittings, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of an overhaul, 2 October 1943. Note after conning station atop the deckhouse and the large horizontal reel for a minesweeping cable. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Page made 6 December 2001
New image added 20 April 2002