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Fitch (DD 462)
ex-DMS-25



DMS-25 call sign:
November - Uniform - Juliet - Bravo

ex-DD-462

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 6 January 1941 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched, 14 June 1941; Commissioned USS Fitch (DD-462), 3 February 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-25, 15 November 1944; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-462, 16 July 1955; Decommissioned, 24 February 1956 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1971; Disposed of as a target, 1 November 1973.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,575 t.(fl); Length 348' 3"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37.4 kts; Complement 272; Armament three 5"/38 mounts and two quad 40mm mounts; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Boston Navy Yard geared turbines, Farrel-Birmingham double reduction gears, two shafts.

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USS Fitch (DD 462)
Fitch 74k Photo Courtesy Steve Lindsay, nephew of crewmember Charles Lindsay Destroyers Online
Fitch 73k National Archives photo 19-N-30326 Joe Radigan
USS Fitch (DMS 25)
Fitch 60k Probable date of this photo is after her reclassification on 15 Nov 1944 to sometime in 1948-49 James D. Bass Jr.
Fitch 225k c. 1951
Mediterranean		 W. A. Wisnowski, SO1, '52-'56
Fitch 146k . ©John Robert Barrett
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