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Pruitt (AG 101)
ex-DM 22



DM-22 call sign:
November - Uniform - Papa - Victor

ex-DD-347

Clemson Class Destroyer/Tracy Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 25 June 1919 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 2 August 1920; Delivered 7 August 1920; Commissioned USS Pruitt (DD-347), 2 September 1920 ; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-22, 30 June 1937; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-101, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 18 October 1945 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Struck from the Navy Register 5 December 1945; Scrapped at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10"; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8 kts; Complement 132; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Normand boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 27,000 shp at 35 kts.

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Pruitt 54k USS Pruitt (DM-22) leads landing craft from USS Heywood (APA-6) toward their landing beaches in Massacre Bay, Attu, [AK] on the first day of the invasion, 11 May 1943. Pruitt used her radar and searchlight to guide the boats nine miles through the fog. The searchlight beam is faintly visible pointing aft from atop her pilothouse.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection.
Collection of James C. Fahey.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 78232		 Naval Historical Center
Pruitt 177k 11 October 1944
Navy Yard Hunter's Point, San Francisco, CA
Broadside view after overhaul.
From the collection of crew member Wilfred Sellers Dowden.
Hunter's Point photo 2714-44-S4		 Glen Brock
View the Pruitt (DM-22)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Pruitt (DD-347)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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