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Thomas E. Fraser (MMD 24)
ex-DM-24
ex-DD-736



DD-736 call sign:
November - Hotel - Hotel - Sierra
Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Light Minelayer: Laid down 31 January 1944 as DD-736 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 10 June 1944; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-24, 19 July 1944; Delivered and commissioned USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24), 4 August 1944; Decommissioned 12 September 1955 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Reclassified as a Fast Minelayer, MMD-24, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Navy Register 5 November 1970; Scrapped 1 June 1974 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Specifications: Displacement 2,380 t.(lt) , 3370 t.(fl); Length 376' 6"; Beam 40' 10"; Draft 18' 10"; Speed 34kts; Complement 363; Armament three twin 5"/38 duel purpose gun mounts, six twin 40mm gun mounts, eleven 20mm guns, two .50 cal. machine guns, two dct, four dcp; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 60,000shp General Electric geared turbines, two shafts.

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Thomas E Fraser 111k - USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Thomas E Fraser 47k - USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Thomas E Fraser 36k - USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Thomas E Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25), Bauer (DM-26), Fraser and Shea (DM-30) USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Thomas E Fraser 299k c. 1944.
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum		 Darryl Baker
Thomas E Fraser 54k 26 September 1944.
National Archives photo from the Bureu of Ships Collection		 Joe Radigan
Thomas E Fraser 48k c. August 1945
Highline between Fraserand Grimes (APA-172)		 USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24) Association
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Thomas E. Fraser (DD-736)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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