Allied Warships

USS Dorsey (DMS 1)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDMS 1 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Sep 1917 
Launched9 Apr 1918 
Commissioned16 Sep 1918 
Lost9 Oct 1945 
History

Decommissioned at San Diego, California 9 March 1923
Recommissioned on 1 March 1930
Reclassified as High Speed Minesweeper DMS-1 on 19 November 1940
Lightly damaged by a Kamikaze on 27 March 1945 off Okinawa
USS Dorsey was wrecked in a Typhoon off Okinawa 9 October 1945 when she was driven aground (3 casualties)
Her hulk was destroyed on 11 January 1946.

 

Commands listed for USS Dorsey (DMS 1)

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CommanderFromTo
1Ellis Mark Zacharias, USN30 May 19317 Jun 1933

2Lt.Cdr. Howard Raymond Healy, USN19371939

3Lt.Cdr. Howard Lyman Collins, USN1940???

4Lt.Cdr. Ranald Macnicol MacKinnon, USN1941???

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

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