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Preble (AG 99)
ex-DM-20
ex-DD-345



Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Nan - George
Clemson Class Destroyer/Tracy Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 12 April 1919 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 8 March 1920; Delivered 15 March 1920; Commissioned USS Preble, Destroyer No. 345, 19 March 1920 at the Boston Navy Yard; Designated DD-345, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-20, 30 June 1937; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-99, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 7 December 1945 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Navy Register 3 June 1946; Sold for scrap 26 October 1946 to Luria Bros. of Philadelphia, PA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 132; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Normand boilers, two 25,000shp Parsons geared turbines, two shafts.

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Preble 104k - -
Preble 138k Plan view amidships, looking forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 17 November 1943. White outlines mark recent alterations to the ship, among them installation of 3"/50 guns atop her midships superstructure. Note the antenna for a SC radar atop Preble's mast.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, NH 103726, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center		 Barb Rebold
Preble 147k Plan view amidships, looking aft, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 17 November 1943. White outlines mark recent alterations to the ship. Note the mine tracks running along Preble's deck, and the structure of the dockside crane from which the photograph was taken.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, NH 103727, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center		 Barb Rebold
Preble 97k Stern view of the Preble departing Mare Island on 17 Nov 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7662-43		 Darryl Baker
Preble 894k Bow on view of the Preble departing Mare Island on 17 Nov 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7663-43		 Darryl Baker
Preble 94k Broadside view of the Preble departing Mare Island on 17 Nov 1943. She had just completed an overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard from 29 September to 17 November 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 7664-43		 Darryl Baker
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Preble (DD-345)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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