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DMS-1 Dorsey
United States Navy high-speed minesweeper
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| flushdeck - | . . William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding, Philadelphia, | 1918/04/09 | 1918/09/16 | 1946/01/01
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| Namesake: Midshipman Dorsey | |||||
| TTD differences from class: | |||||
| Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/7d | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 41/12/07 | 41/12/09 | BatForPac/MineRon2/MineDiv6 & TF 3 | off Johnston Is. | 66 114 | |
| 41/12/1? | 43/09/24 | Hawaiian Sea Frontier - patrol, local escort and training duty | 66 | ||
| 43/01/01 | 43/02/11 | San Francisco - overhaul | 66 | ||
| 43/10 | 43/11 | convoys to Efate, New Hebrides, Noumea | 66 | ||
| 43/10/28 | 43/10/29 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/01 | Shoe2 | 31/MineRon2/MineDiv6 | land Cape Torokina | 66 | |
| 43/11/06 | 43/11/0? | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/08 | Cape Torokina - reinforcement convoy | 66 | |||
| 43/11/13 | Cape Torokina - reinforcement convoy | 66 | |||
| 43/11/15 | 43/11/18 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/2? | 44/03/29 | escort duty Port Purvis, Tulagi <> Noumea | 66 | ||
| 44/03/29 | 44/05/12 | escort duty betw. Tulagi, Kwajalein, Manus, New Georgia | 66 | ||
| 44/05/12 | 44/06/20 | Majuro - high speed target towing duty | 66 | ||
| 44/06/20 | 44/07/09 | escort duty betw. Kwajalein and Eniwetok | 66 | ||
| 44/06/24 | Eniwetok | 88 | |||
| 44/07/09 | 44/08? | sail Marshalls > P.H. > San Diego | 66 | ||
| 44/08 | 44/09 | San Diego - overhaul | 66 | ||
| 44/10/01 | 44/11/09 | P.H. - towing duty, minesweeping experiments | 66 | ||
| 44/12/01 | 44/12/23 | Manus - minesweeping operations | 66 | ||
| 44/12/23 | 44/12/2? | sail Manus > San Pedro Bay, Leyte | 66 | ||
| 45/01/02 | 45/02 | Mike1 | 77.6/MineRon2 | 66 | |
| 45/02/1? | 45/03/01 | Detach | 66 | ||
| 45/02/19 | 45/02/24 | Detach | tow disabled Gamble Iwojima > Saipan | 66 | |
| 45/03/2 ? | 45/04/04 | Iceber | 52? | 66 | |
| 45/03/26 | Iceber | 52? | damage(kami) 9 nm NNW of Kerama Retto (26-20N, 127-18E) - 3 KIA, 2 WIA | 66 85 | |
| 45/04/04 | 45/04/? | sail Okinawa > P.H. for repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/05 | 45/06 | PHNY - repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/07/01 | 45/09 | Juneau | 39 | minesweeping operations - Okinawa, Japan | 66 |