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Gherardi (DD 637)
ex-DMS-30
ex-DD-637

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 Gherardi (DD-637), 15 September 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-30, 15 November 1944; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-637, 15 July 1955; Decommissioned 17 December 1955 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group: Struck from the Navy Register 1 June 1971; Disposed of as a target 1 June 1973.

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, 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 Gherardi (DD 637)
Gherardi 92k 29 October 1942
Off Philadelphia Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-40021		 Joe Radigan
Gherardi 83k New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Dusk falls over the Navy Yard docks, circa June-September 1943. The ship in the center, just beyond the crane, is Gherardi. USS Luce (DD-522) is at left, with only her bow visible. USS Butler (DD-636) is at right, with only her stern visible. USS Doyle (DD-494) is in the right background. A British light cruiser, painted in yellow primer, is in the left background.
National Archives photo 80-G-K-3859		 Naval Historical Center
Gherardi 86k New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Lights are turned on as night falls over the Navy Yard docks, circa June-September 1943. Gherardi is in the center, by the crane. USS Luce (DD-522) is at left.
National Archives photo 80-G-K-3860		 Naval Historical Center
USS Gherardi (DMS 30)
Gherardi 27k - Don Strout, SO3, during Korean War
Gherardi 63k . Robert Hurst
Gherardi 148k . ©John Robert Barrett
Gherardi 118k Photographed circa the later 1940s or the early 1950s.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Navy photo NH 81010		 Naval Historical Center
Gherardi 151k c. September 1952
Refueling from Leyte (CV 32).		 Robert Carey, AF2, USS Leyte (CV-32), 1952
Gherardi 81k c. 1955
Near Charleston, SC		 Bill Fuzak
View the Gherardi (DMS-30)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource DD Pages, USS Gherardi (DD-637)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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