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Shea (MMD 30)
ex-DM-30
ex-DD-750

Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Light Minelayer: Laid down 23 December 1943 as Shea (DD-750) by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched 20 May 1944; Reclasified as a Light Minelayer, DM-30, 20 July 1944; Commissioned USS Shea (DM-30) 30 September 1944 at the New York Navy Yard; Decommissioned 9 April 1958; ; Reclassified as a Fast Minelayer, MMD-30, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Naval Register 1 September 1973; Sold for scrap 1 September 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, and four dcp; Propulsion four Babcocks and Wilcox boilers, two General Electric geared turbines, 60,000shp at 36.5 kts, two shafts, two shafts, Range 3,300 nm at 20 kts.
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Thomas E Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25), Harry F. Bauer (DM-26), Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24) and Shea USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Shea 56k - -
Shea 58k - -
Shea 104k National Archives photo BS 73162 Joe Radigan
Shea 69k 18 October 1944 -
Shea 83k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1958 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shea (DD-750)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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