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Macomb (DD 458)
ex-DMS-23
ex-DD-458



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Delta - Sierra


Macomb served the Navies of the United States, Japan and the Republic of China.
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 3 September 1940 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; Launched 23 September 1941; Commissioned USS Macomb (DD-458), 26 January 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-23, 15 November 1944; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-458, 4 April 1954; Decommissioned and transferred to Japan, 19 October 1954 as Hatakaze (DD-182); Returned to U.S. Navy custody 3 December 1969; Transferred to Taiwan 6 August 1970 as Hsien Yang (DD 1016); Decommissioned in 1974 for use as a dockside training ship, cannibalization and scrap.

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 gun mounts and two quad 40mm mounts; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Westinghouse geared turbines, De Laval double reduction gear, two shafts.

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DD-458
Macomb 73k 14 April 1942
Off Boston, MA
National Archives photo BS 29130c. 1945.		 Joe Radigan
DMS-23
Macomb 67k c. 1945. EMCS James Diamond
Macomb 62k c. 1946-1947. EMCS James Diamond
Macomb 66k c. 1952-1953. EMCS James Diamond
Macomb 39k c. 1953. James Young RM2, USN / EMCS James Diamond
Hsien Yang (DD 1016)
Macomb 63k Hsien Yang (DD 1016) alongside an unidentified LST
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
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