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Butler (DMS-29)
ex-DD-636

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 16 September 1941 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 12 February 1942; Commissioned USS Butler (DD-636), 15 August 1942; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-29, 15 November 1944; Decommissioned, 8 November 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 28 November 1945; Sold for scrap 10 January 1948.

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 gun mounts, two quad 40mm mounts, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp General Electric geared turbines,
De Laval double reduction gears, two shafts.

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USS Butler (DD 639)
Butler 111 6 October 1942
Off Philadelphia Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-39869		 Joe Radigan
Butler 66k U. S. Navy photo from the October 1947 edition of All Hands magazine. Joe Radigan
USS Butler (DMS 29)
Butler 145 . ©John Robert Barrett
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource DD Pages, USS Butler (DD-636)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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