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Doran (DD-634)
ex-DMS-41
ex-DD-634



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Juliet - Uniform
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 14 June 1941 at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched 10 December 1941; Commissioned USS Doran (DD-634), 4 August 1942; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-41, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned 29 January 1947 at San Diego and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified as a Destroyer Minesweeper, DMS, 7 February 1955; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-634, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 15 January 1972; Sold for scrap 1 September 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and
Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 347' 10"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 261; Armament four 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
USS Doran (DD 634)
Doran 98k National Archives photo BS 39979 Joe Radigan
USS Doran (DMS 41)
Doran 55k . Dick Potter
Doran 41k . Dick Potter
Doran 147k . ©John Robert Barrett
Doran 62k 25 December 1945
Shanghi, China		 Dick Potter
Doran 95k c. 1946 David Buell
View the Doran (DMS-41)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource DD Pages, USS Doran (DD-634)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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