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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Adams (MMD 27)
ex-DM-27
ex-DD-739

Call sign:
November - Tango - Juliet - Foxtrot

Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 20 March 1944 as DD-739 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Redesignated a Light Minelayer, DM-27, 20 July 1944; Launched, 23 July 1944; Delivered and commissioned USS Adams (DM-27), 10 October 1944 at the Boston Navy Yard; Decommissioned in December 1946 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified as a Destroyer Minelayer 7 February 1955; Reclassified as a Fast Minelayer, MMD-27, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Navy Register, 1 December 1970; Sold for scrap 16 December 1971 to Chow Iron and Steel Co. of Taiwan.

Specifications: Displacement 2,380 t.(lt) , 3,370 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 dct, four dcp; Propulsion, four Babcocks and Wilcox boilers, two General Electric Corp. geared turbines, 60,000SHP at 36.5kts, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
48k	Ensign Samuel Adams, USN. Photograph taken at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, 31 January 1938, while he was in flight training. Samuel Adams was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, on 10 April 1912. Graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1935, he was designated a Naval Aviator in January 1939. He joined Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) on USS Yorktown (CV-5) in May 1939 and served with that unit through the first six months of the Pacific war. On 4 June 1942, during a Battle of Midway scouting flight, Lieutenant Adams located the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, a vital contribution to the destruction of that ship. On the following day, while attacking the Japanese destroyer Tanikaze, he lost his life when his SBD aircraft was shot down. Lieutenant Samuel Adams was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Midway. Photograph from the Bureau of Personnel Collection in the U.S. National Archives. National Archives photo 80-PA-1A-22	Naval Historical Center
162k	-	-
99k	Off San Francisco, CA 2 May 1945. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1971. U.S. Navy photo NH 77371.	Original photo: Dana Welch Replacement photo: Naval Historical Center
62k	Adams (DM-27) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA., late June 1945, following repairs from Kamikaze damage. National Archives photo 19-N-86927	-
133k	Stern view of Adams off Mare Island on 28 June 1945. U.S. Navy photo 4932-45	Darryl Baker
147k	Bow on view of Adams in Mare Island channel on 28 June 1945. Mare Island Ammunition Depot is in the background. U.S. Navy photo 4936-45	Darryl Baker
68k	28 June 1945 Off Mare Island. National Archives photo	Joe Radigan
335k	Aft plan view of Adams at Mare Island on 2 July 1945. She was under going repairs at the yard from 7 May to 4 July 1945. U.S. Navy photo 5063-45	Darryl Baker
283k	Forward plan view of Adams at Mare Island on 2 July 1945. U.S. Navy photo 5065-45	Darryl Baker
93k	c. September 1946 Mare Island Navy Yard. U.S. Navy photo	Pieter Bakels
117k	Stern view of Adams off Mare Island on 23 September 1946. U.S. Navy photo 3411-46	Darryl Baker
102k	Broadside view of Adams off Mare Island on 23 September 1946. She was under going repairs at the yard from 29 July to 28 September 1946. U.S. Navy photo 3413-46	Darryl Baker
136k	Bow on view of Adams departing Mare Island on 23 September 1946. U.S. Navy photo 3415-46	Darryl Baker
105k	25 September 1946 Mare Island Navy Yard. U.S. Navy photo	Pieter Bakels