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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Zane (AG 109)
ex-DMS-14

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Mike - Nan

ex-DD-337

Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 January 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Launched, 12 August 1919; Commissioned USS Zane (DD-337), 15 February 1921; Decommissioned, 1 February 1923 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Recommissioned, 25 February 1930; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-14, 19 November 1940; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-109, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 14 December 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Navy Register 8 January 1946; Sold for scrap 22 October 1946 to Luria Brothers and Co., Inc. of Philadelphia, PA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,750 t(fl).; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 8" ; Draft 12' 2"; Speed 32.5 kts.; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount and one twin 40mm; Propulsion three Normand boilers, two 26,000shp Mare Island Navy Yard (Parsons design) geared turbines, Mare Island Navy Yard single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Zane (DD 337)
	229k	USS Perry (DD 340) and Zane shown at Skagway, Alaska on June 25, 1935. Courtesy of Lieutenant Raymond F. Farwell, U.S. Naval Reserve U.S. Navy photo DD 337 & DD 340-6-1935	Darryl Baker
	35k	c. October 1935.	-
USS Zane (DMS 14)
	28k	.	-
	157k	Plan view of the after half of the ship, taken while she was tied up alongside a more modern destroyer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 30 May 1942. Note her after deckhouse, with two 20mm guns, a 3"/50 gun and the after conn on its top; minesweeping cable reels and floats; and depth charge racks installed over the propeller guards. U.S. Navy photo NH 97701	Naval Historical Center
	87k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 31 May 1942. U.S. Navy photo NH 97702	Naval Historical Center
	78k	Off San Francisco, California, 21 September 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-57504	Naval Historical Center
	89k	Stern view of the Zane off San Francisco on 21 September 1943. U.S. Navy photo 6639-43	Darryl Baker
	134k	Broadside view of the Zane off San Francisco on 21 September 1943 after overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard. She was in overhaul from 19 August until 19 September 1943. U.S. Navy photo 6641-43	Darryl Baker
	80k	Bow on view of the Zane off San Francisco on 21 September 1943. U.S. Navy photo 6643-43	Darryl Baker