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Harry F. Bauer (MMD 26)
ex-DM-26
ex-DD-738


Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Light Minelayer: Laid down 6 March 1944 as DD-738 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 9 July 1944; Reclasified as a Light Minelayer, DM-26, 20 July 1944; Delivered and commissioned USS Harry F. Bauer (DM-26), 22 September 1944; Decommissioned 12 March 1956 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group; Redesignated a Fast Minelayer, MMD-26, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Naval Register 15 August 1971; Sold for scrap 1 June 1974 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

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 Babcocks 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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Harry F Bauer 65k - -
Thomas E. Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25), Harry F. Bauer (DM-26), Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24) and Shea (DM-30) USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24) Association
Harry F. Bauer 60k - -

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shannon (DD-737)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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