USS Sage (AM-111)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Sage (AM-111) |
| Builder: | Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company, Winslow, Washington |
| Laid down: | 29 July 1942 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 23 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 March 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 April 1955 |
| Reclassified: | MSF-111, 7 February 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1972 |
| Honours and awards: |
8 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold to Mexico, 1973 |
| History | |
 Mexico
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| Name: | ARM Hermenegildo Galeana (C86) |
| Namesake: | Hermenegildo Galeana |
| Acquired: | 4 November 1973 |
| Reclassified: | G19 |
| Renamed: | ARM Mariano Matamoros (P117), 1993 |
| Namesake: | Mariano Matamoros |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2007[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Auk-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 890 long tons (904 t) |
| Length: | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement: | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Sage (AM-111) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing naval mines.
Sage was laid down on 29 July 1942 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company, Winslow, Washington; launched on 21 November 1942; sponsored by Miss Shirley Woodman; and commissioned on 23 August 1943, Lt. Franklyn K. Zinn, USNR, in command.
Following shakedown off the California coast, Sage moved west to Pearl Harbor. Arriving on 20 October, she departed again on the 28th; proceeded to Midway Island, whence she provided escort services to the Ellice and Phoenix Islands; then returned to Hawaii. Through December 1943 and into January 1944, she conducted minesweeping exercises and experiments and was altered to carry a small support landing craft. On 22 January, she embarked a hydrographic party; and, on the 23rd, she sortied with Task Force 51, the Marshall Islands assault force.
On the 31st, Sage commenced minesweeping and hydrographic survey operations at Majuro; and, four days later, shifted to Kwajalein. For the next week, she alternated antisubmarine patrols with sonar watch duty at the entrance to the lagoon. On 11 February, she and three other AM's tracked and attacked a possible submarine one mile off Gea, but the depth charges they dropped seemingly inflicted little or no damage. On the 15th, however, she sailed with Task Group 51.11 for Eniwetok; and, the same day, joined the destroyers Phelps (DD-360) and Macdonough (DD-351) in sinking the Japanese submarine RO-40.
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