USS Sands

Last updated October 11, 2021

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Sands for Benjamin F. Sands and his son, James H. Sands.

The first USS Sands (DD-243/APD-13) was a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and decommissioned in 1945.
The second USNS Sands (T-AGOR-6) was placed in service in 1965, struck in 1990 and sold to Brazil.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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