Template:Ship box USS Dorsey (DD-117)

[edit] USS Dorsey

• Designation: Destroyer No. 117, DD-117, DMS-1
• Builders:  United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• Laid down:
• Launched: 9 April 1918 (List)
• Operator:  United States Navy
• Commissioned: 16 September 1918 (List)
• Decommissioned: 8 December 1945 (List)
• Status: Grounded by a typhoon 9 October 1945 (List) and destroyed 1 January 1946
• Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed mine-sweeper