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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 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine as Shannon (DD-737)
  • Launched 24 June 1944
  • Reclasified 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 and 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. of Baltimore, MD.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 2,380 t.(lt), 3370 t.(fl)
  • Length 376' 6"
  • Beam 40' 10"
  • Draft 18' 10"
  • Speed 34 kts.
  • Complement 363
  • Armament: Three twin 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, six twin 40mm gun mounts, eleven 20mm guns, two .50 cal machine guns, two depth charge tracks and four depth charge projectors
  • Propulsion: Four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 60,000shp General Electric Corp. geared turbines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    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 352k . Ed Zajkowski
    Shannon 64k c. September 1944 -
    Shannon 96k Shannon 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 162k c. Early 1950s
    From the collection of LT Frank Lucas    		 John Chiquoine
    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
    Commanding Officers
    01CDR Edward Lee Foster, USN8 September 1944 - 10 June 1945
    02CDR William Thomas Ingram, II, USN10 June 1945 - December 1945
    03LCDR William Robins Crenshaw, USNDecember 1945 - July 1947
    05CDR James Starr Shilson, USNMay 1949 - August 1951
    06CDR George Clifton Ellerton, Jr., USNAugust 1951 - 1953
    07CDR William Linsay Poindexter, USN1953 - 1955
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    View the Shannon (MMD 25)
    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shannon (DD-737)
    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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