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Gwin (MMD 33)
ex-DM-33
ex-DD-772



Call sign:
November - Tango - Echo - Bravo


Gwin served the Navies of the United States and Turkey.
Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer/Robert H. Smith Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 31 October 1943 at Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA as Gwin (DD-772); Launched, 9 April 1944; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-33, 19 July 1944; Commissioned USS Gwin (DM-33), 30 September 1944 at Los Angeles, CA; Decommissioned, 3 September 1946 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned 8 July 1952 at Charleston; Decommissioned, 3 April 1958 at Philadelphia, PA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Redesignated as a Fast Minelayer, MMD-33, 1 January 1969; Transferred to Turkey, 15 August 1971 and renamed Muavenet (DM 357); Severely damaged by accidental firing of a Sea Sparrow missile by USS Saratoga (CV-60), 2 October 1992 during NATO Exercise Display Determination 92; Struck from the Navy register in 1993. Fate unknown.

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 Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two General Electric Corp. geared turbines, 60,000 shp at 36.5 kts., two shafts, Range 3,300 nm at 20 kts.

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Gwin 33k . Robert Hurst
Gwin 73k National Archives photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection Joe Radigan
Gwin 170k Mark 18, Mod 0 Ground Mine Pieter Bakels
Gwin 190k 29 September 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Port side looking to bow. Inclination experiments
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 280k 29 September 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Port side looking aft. Inclination experiments
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 203k 11 October 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Inclination experiments
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 317k 11 October 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Inclination experiments
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 177k 11 October 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Topside completion
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 214k 29 September 1944
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA
Completion
U.S. Navy photo		 Pieter Bakels
Gwin 62k U.S. Navy photo from the February 1957 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
View the Gwin (DM-33)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Gwin (DD-772)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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