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Mervine (DD 489)
ex-DMS-31
ex-DD-489

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 3 November 1941 at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Kearny NJ: Launched 3 May 1942; Commissioned USS Mervine (DD-489), 17 June 1942; Converted and reclassified as a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-31, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned 27 May 1949 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified as a Destroyer, DD-489, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register 31 July 1968; Sold for scrap in 1969.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 347' 10"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 272; Armament four 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts.

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USS Mervine (DD 489)
Mervine 69k 23 January 1943
Off New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-41140.		 Joe Radigan
USS Mervine (DMS 31)
Mervine 146k . ©John Robert Barrett
Mervine 14k c. August-September 1945 Dave Gauthier
Quick 91k c. August 1946
San Francisco, CA
McCook (DMS 36), Davison (DMS 37), Mervine and Quick (DMS 32)		 Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
View the Mervine (DMS-31)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource DD Pages, USS Mervine (DD-489)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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