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Rodman (DD 456)
ex-DMS-21



DMS-21 call sign:
November - India - Zulu - Juliet

ex-DD-456


Rodman served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 16 December 1940 at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ; Launched 26 September 1941; Commissioned USS Rodman (DD-456), 27 January 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-21, 15 November 1944; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-456, decommissioned 28 July 1955 and transferred to Taiwan as Hsien Yang (DD-16); Served until 1976 when the old destroyer was sunk for a motion picture.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,575 t.(fl); Length 348' 3"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 13' 9"; Speed 37.4 kts.; Complement 272; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts and two quad 40mm mounts; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp General Electric turbines, De Laval double reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Rodman (DD 456)
Rodman 114k . Joseph Moore
Rodman 69k 2 April 1943
Off Boston, MA
National Archives photo BS 42483		 Joe Radigan
USS Rodman (DMS 21)
Rodman 78k . .
Rodman 60k c. 1951 Robert Hurst
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