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Forrest (DMS-24)

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Fox - King

ex-DD-461

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 6 January 1941 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched 14 June 1941; Commissioned USS Forrest (DD-461), 13 January 1942; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-24 15 November 1944; Decommissioned 30 November 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 9 December 1945; Sold for scrap 20 November 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 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, two quad 40mm mounts, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Boston Navy Yard geared turbines, Farrel-Birmingham reduction gears, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Forrest (DD 461)
	85k	c. 25 April 1942 Off Boston Navy Yard National Archives photo BS 29870	National Archives
USS Forrest (DMS 24)
	93k	c. August 1945 Forward part of the Forrest being repaired in the Boston Navy Yard after returning from the Pacific.	.
	144k	.	©John Robert Barrett

View the Forrest (DMS-24)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Forrest (DD-461)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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