Pedro Bay, off Leyte. During those prosaic but necessary duties, she had been reclassified from a high-speed minesweeper to a miscellaneous auxiliary, AG-109, on 5 June 1945. The ship departed the western Pacific in October, beginning her homeward voyage from Leyte on the 13th. After touching at Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, and San Diego en route, Zane transited the Panama Canal on 25 November and ultimately reached Norfolk, Virginia, on 29 November. She was decommissioned there on 14 December 1945. Struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946, the ship was delivered to Luria Brothers and Company, on 22 October 1946; her hulk was scrapped on 3 March 1947. Zane (DMS-14) received six battle stars for her World War II service from Pearl Harbor to the Marianas. In addition, she received the Navy Unit Commendation for her services at Guadalcanal in 1942 and 1943. Postscript As of 2012, no other ship has been named USS Zane. Herman Wouk, author of the novel The Caine Mutiny, served as an officer aboard Zane from February 1943 to February 1945 before becoming executive officer of another Clemson class DMS, the USS Southard in May. Zane and her campaigns served as the model for a few of the incidents that took place on the fictional USS Caine (DMS-22), although the climax of the novel is influenced by his experiences as Executive Officer on the Destroyer/Minesweeper USS Southard after she ran aground at Okinawa due to a typhoon, two months after peace was declared with Japan. Wouk began writing his first novel, Aurora Dawn, while the Zane was at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. References External links navsource.org: USS Zane DD-337 / DMS-14 / AG-109 hazegray.org: USS Zane Clemson-class destroyers World War II mine warfare vessels of the United States World War II auxiliary ships of the United States Ships built in Vallejo, California 1919 ships Ships present during the attack on Pearl Harbor