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DD 345 / DM-20 / AG-99 Preble


Clemson Class Destroyer / Tracy Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 12 April 1919 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched, 8 March 1929; Commissioned USS Preble, Destroyer No. 345, 19 March 1920 at Boston Navy Yard; Designated DD-345, 17 July 1920; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer DM-20, 30 June 1937; Redesignated Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-99, 5 June 1945; Decommissioned, 7 December 1945 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 June 1946; Sold for scrapping, 26 October 1946 to Luna Bros., Philadelphia, PA. Preble received eight battle stars 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 132; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Normand boilers, two Parsons geared turbines, 27,000shp at 35kts, two shafts.
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