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Emmons (DMS 22)
ex-DD-457



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Bravo - Quebec

Sunk 7 April 1944
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 14 November 1940 by Bath Iron Works Corp, Bath, Maine; Launched 23 August 1941; Commissioned USS Emmons (DD-457), 5 December 1941; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-22, 15 November 1944; Lost to enemy action off Okinawa, 6 April 1945; Sunk by gunfire from USS Ellyson (DMS 19), 7 April 1944 to prevent her from falling into enemy hands; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1945.

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 5"/38 dual purpose mounts and two twin 40mm mounts; Propulsion , four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Westinghouse turbines, De Laval double reduction gear, two shafts.

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Emmons 66k 1 November 1943
Norfolk Navy Yard
National Archives photo BS 55046		 Joe Radigan
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