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Hopkins (DMS-13)



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Quebec - Mike

ex-DD-249

Clemson Class Destroyer/Chandler Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 30 July 1919 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ; Launched, 26 June 1920; Commissioned USS Hopkins (DD-249), 21 March 1921; Reclassified, 19 November 1940 and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper,
DMS-13; Decommissioned, 31 December 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register 1 January 1946; Sold for scrap 8 November 1946 to Heglo Sales Corp. Hillsdale, NJ.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,750 t(fl).; Length 314' 5"; Beam 31' 8" ; Draft 12' 2"; Speed 30.8 kts; Complement 149; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts and one twin 40mm mount; Propulsion three White-Forster boilers, two 26,000shp Westinghouse geared turbines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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Hopkins 18k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in World War II
Hopkins 89k . .
Hopkins 104k Hopkins steams past the transport area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. Ship burning in the left center distance is USS George F. Elliott (AP 13), which had been hit by a Japanese air attack earlier in the day.
USN Photo 80-G-34683.		 Naval Historical Center
Hopkins 36k c. September 1943. Hyperwar U.S. Navy in World War II
Hopkins 108k Stern view of Hopkins off Mare Island on 22 September 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 6659-43		 Darryl Baker
Hopkins 105k Broadside view of Hopkins off Mare Island on 22 September 1943. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 17 June - 22 September 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 6661-43		 Darryl Baker
Hopkins 97k Bow view of Hopkins off Mare Island on 22 September 1943.
U.S. Navy photo 6663-43		 Darryl Baker
Hopkins 85k Signaling to USS George Clymer (APA-27) in Empress Augusta Bay during the invasion of Bougainville, 1 November 1943.
USN Photo 80-G-55757		 Naval Historical Center
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