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Shannon (MMD 25)
ex-DM-25
ex-DD-737



Call sign:
November - Hotel - Whiskey - Kilo
Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Light Minelayer: Laid down 14 February 1944 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine as Shannon (DD-737); Launched 24 June 1944; Redesignated as a Light Minelayer, DM-25, 20 July 1944; Delivered and commissioned USS Shannon (DM-25), 8 September 1944; Decommissioned 24 October 1955 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston Group; Reclassified as a Fast Minelayer, MMD-25, 14 August 1968; Struck from the Navy Register 1 November 1970; Sold for scrap in May 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.

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 GEC geared turbines, 60,000SHP at 36.5kts, two shafts, two propellers, Range 3,300 nm at 20kts.

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Shannon 127k - -
Thomas E Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25), Bauer (DM-26), Fraser (DM-24) and Shea (DM-30) USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
Association
Shannon 106k Bureau of Ships Collection -
Shannon 51k . Robert Hurst
Shannon 64k c. September 1944 -
Shannon 96k USS Shannon (DM-25) steams past task forces gathering for the Okinawa Operation, circa March 1945. Location is probably Ulithi Atoll. Ships in the near background include USS Flint (CL-97), in left center, and USS Miami (CL-89), at right. Three Essex class aircraft carriers are anchored in the middle distance. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is at the far left.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-3816		 Naval Historical Center
Shannon 191k c. Late 1940's. Copenhagen, Denmark
(Inscription on bottom left is Danish spelling of Copenhagen)		 John Osbeck
Shannon 184k c. 1950 Victor Barnaby
Shannon 230k 23 October 1950
In front of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece
Second from the right (in civvies) is LTJG James Sheppard, third man from the right is the Greek tour guide		 Victor Barnaby
Shannon 109k 17 November 1950
Taranto, Italy		 Victor Barnaby
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shannon (DD-737)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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