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Dorsey (DMS 1)

Call sign:
November - Echo - Lima - Golf

ex-DD-117

Wickes Class Destroyer/Dorsey Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 18 September 1917 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA.; Launched, 9 April 1918; Commissioned USS Dorsey, Destroyer No. 117, 16 September 1918; Designated DD-117, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 9 March 1923 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 1 March 1930; Reclassified as a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-1, 19 November 1940; Grounded in typhoon at Okinawa 9 October 1945, total loss; Decommissioned 8 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946; Hulk destroyed 1 January 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 11' 4"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three White-Forster boilers, two 26,000shp Cramp (Parsons design) geared turbines, De Laval single reduction gear,
two shafts.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Dorsey (DD-117)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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