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Sicard (AG 100)
ex-DM-21
ex-DD-346
ex-Destroyer No. 346



Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Peter - Love
Clemson Class Destroyer/Tracy Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 18 June 1918 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 20 April 1920; Delivered 12 May 1920; Commissioned USS Sicard, Destroyer No. 346, 9 June 1920; Designated DD-346, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-21, 30 June 1937; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-100, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 21 November 1945 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Navy Register 19 December 1945; Sold for scrap 22 June 1946 to Hugh New of New York, NY.

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 27,000shp Parsons geared turbines, two shafts.

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Sicard 151k 16 December 1942
Off Mare Island, CA. She was under goind repairs at the yard from 28 November to 16 December 1942.
U.S. Navy photo 7973-12-42		 Darryl Baker
Sicard 87k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Sicard 117k 19 July 1943
Stern view of the Sicard off San Francisco. Oakland Bay Bridge in the background.
U.S. Navy photo 5246-43		 Darryl Baker
Sicard 137k 19 July 1943
Broadside view of the Sicard off San Francisco.
U.S. Navy photo 5248-43		 Darryl Baker
Sicard 135 23 July 1943
Amidships looking forward plan view of the Sicard at Mare Island Navy Yard. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 20 June until 18 July 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 5155-43		 Darryl Baker
Sicard 75k c. 1944 David Buell
View the Sicard (DM-21)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Sicard (DD-346)
CDR Albert George Fenley Website
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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