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Henry A. Wiley (MMD 29)
ex-DM-29
ex-DD-749



Call sign:
November - Tango - Juliet - Tango
Robert H. Smith Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 28 November 1943 as Henry A. Wiley (DD-749), an Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched, 21 April 1944; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-29, 20 July 1944; Delivered 30 August 1944; Commissioned USS Henry A. Wiley (DM-29), 31 August 1944; Decommissioned, 29 January 1947; Reclassified as a Fast Minelayer,
MMD-29, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Navy Register 15 October 1970; Sold for scrap 30 May 1972.

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 dual 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 General Electric geared turbines, 60,000SHP at 36.5kts, two shafts, Range 3,300 nm at 20kts.

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Henry A. Wiley (DM 29)
Henry A. Wiley 74k 30 August 1944
Delivery, Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, NY
National Archives photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection		 Joe Radigan
USS Henry A. Wiley (DM 29)
Henry A. Wiley 55k U.S. Navy photo Destroyers Online
Henry A. Wiley 77k U.S. Navy photo from the October 1947 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Henry A. Wiley 42k c. 1945
Standing within 200 yards of the beach at Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi is in the background.
U.S. Navy photo from the October 2002 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
Henry A. Wiley 119k 7 February 1946
San Francisco Bay
Flying the "homeward bound" pennant from masthead to fantail.
U.S. Navy photo from the October 2002 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
Henry A. Wiley (MMD 29)
Henry A. Wiley 100k c. 1971
Henry A Wiley, Albert W. Grant (DD-649) and Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833), moored together at the San Diego Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
Photo courtesy of L. Cote from "Warship Boneyards" by Kit and Carolyn Bonner		 Robert Hurst
View the Henry A. Wiley (MMD 29)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Henry A. Wiley (DD-749)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Destroyers Online
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