file created: 12/07/02 00:59:14 , last update: 07/25/02
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DM-20 Preble
United States Navy destroyer minelayer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
flushdeck - 1919/04/12
Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine
1920/03/08 1920/03/19 1946/10/26
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Namesake:
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 43: Ms 21


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
41/12/07 42/01/30   BatForPac/MineRon1/MineDiv1 PHNY - overhaul   66  114 
42/01/30 42/04/01     P.H. - patrol duty   66 
42/04/03     MineDiv1 lay minefield off French Frigate Shoals   66  85 
42/05/ ?? 42/05/29     French Frigate Shoals - patrol   85 
42/07       lay minefield off Kodiak   66 
42/12/06 43/01     sail P.H. > Fiji > Noumea   66 
43/02 43/03     escort duty - Russell Islands, New Hebrides   66 
43/02/01     66.?/GF lay minefield between Savo Is. and Cape Esperance   66  85 
43/03/18 43/03/19     Esp. Santo   88 
43/05/06     36.5 lay mines in Blackett Strait   66  85 
43/05/13       mining Kula Gulf  
43/05/20 43/05/24     Efate   88 
43/05/24       rescued 85 survivors from torpedoed SS Stanvae Manila   66 
43/06/24 43/06/27     Efate   88 
43/06/26 43/06/29 Toena 36.2    
43/06/29   Toena 36.2 mining Shortland Harbor  
43/07 43/09/09     escort duty   66 
43/08/14       Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/2? 43/08/30     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/24     34.4 lay mines off Wilson Cove, W Kolombangara   85 
43/09/09 43/09/2?     sail Noumea > San Francisco   66 
43/10?? 43/11??     San Francisco - overhaul   66 
43/11?? 44/01     P.H. - convoy escort duty   66 
44/02/03       Majuro   66 
44/03 44/08     escort duty P.H. <> Marshalls   66 
44/04/18 44/05     escort Altamaha from Marshalls to P.H.   66 
44/04/29 44/05/0?     sail from P.H. to Majuro   66 
44/06/07 44/06/09     P.H.   88 
44/07/15 44/07/24     escort convoy (2 AO, 3 s/s) from P.H. to Eniwetok   81 
44/08/23 44/08/27     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
44/09/06 44/10/01 Stale2 32.5     66 
44/09/12   Stale2 32 sweep mines between Angaur and Peleliu   85 
44/09/13   Stale2 32.5 rescue survivors from Perry   66 
44/09/21 44/10/17 Stale2 33.13.1 sweep Ulithi   85 
44/10/10? 44/10/23 King2 77.5     66 
44/10/23 44/10/2?     sail Leyte . Manus   66 
44/11 44/12/2?     Manus - training   66 
45/01/01 45/01/30?     San Pedro Bay, Leyte   66 
45/03/08 45/05     San Francisco - overhaul   66 
45/05/08 45/07     P.H. - escort duty   66 
45/07/20 45/07/23?     esocrt Vella Gulf Guam > Okinawa   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: ex DD-345, 37/06/30 > DM-20, 45/06/05 > AG-99, 46/01/03 struck
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 8 Battle Stars
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