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DD-337 / DMS-14 / AG-109 Zane



Call sign: November - Uniform - Mike - November



Clemson Class Destroyer: Laid down, 15 January 1919 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Launched, 12 August 1919; Commissioned USS Zane (DD-337), 21 March 1921; Decommissioned, 1 February 1923 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 25 February 1930; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-14, 19 November 1940; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-109, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 14 December 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 January 1946; Sold for scrapping, 22 October 1946 to Luria Bros. and Co. Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Zane received six battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 122; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow, Thornycroft, White-Forster or Normand boilers, two geared turbines, 27,000SHP at 35kts, two shafts.
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Zane 35k As DD-337, October 1935. -
Zane 28k As DMS-14. -
Zane 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.
USN Photo NH 97701
Naval Historical Center
Zane 87k Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 31 May 1942.
USN Photo NH 97702
Naval Historical Center
Zane 78k Off San Francisco, California, 21 September 1943.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S.
National Archives.
BuShips Photo 19-N-57504
Naval Historical Center

View the Zane (DMS-14)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Gatherings Plus
Address: P.O. Box 1023
Branson West, MO 65737
Phone: 417-338-4048
Reunion this year will at Branson, MO
May 14 -18, 2003
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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