High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barney (DD 149) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War II, later redesignated AG-113. She was the second ship named for Commodore Joshua Barney. Barney (DD-149) was launched 5 September 1918 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sponsored by Miss Nannie Dornin Barney, great-granddaughter of Commodore Barney, and commissioned 14 March 1919, Lieutenant Commander J. L. Kauffman in command.