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Harding (DMS-28)
ex-DD-625



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Zebra - Charlie
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 22 July 1941 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched 28 June 1942; Commissioned USS Harding (DD-625), 25 May 1943; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-28, 15 November 1944; Decommissioned 2 November 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Navy Register 16 November 1945; Sold for scrap 16 April 1947 to Luia Brothers Co., Inc. of Philadelphia, PA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,575 t.(fl); Length 348' 3"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 15' 8"; 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, Westinghouse double reduction gear, two shafts.

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Harding (DD 625)
Harding 56k 5 October 1943
Off the New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo BS 53735		 Joe Radigan
Harding (DMS 28)
Harding 67k 17 December 1944 -
Harding 52k When an Aichi D3A Val bomber tore a gash in the side of the Harding on 16 April 1945, this partial cylinder head from the kamikaze's engine landed on the minesweeper's bridge.
U.S. Navy photo by J. M. Caiella, Navy Museum Washington (DC) Navy Yard		 Joe Radigan
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