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Quick (DD 490)
ex-DMS-32
ex-DD-490

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 Quick (DD-490), 3 July 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-32, 23 June 1945; Decommissioned, 28 May 1949; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-490, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 15 June 1971; Sold for scrap 1 September 1973 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

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, two propellers.

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USS Quick (DD 490)
Quick 82k 15 July 1942
Off New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-31831		 Joe Radigan
USS Quick (DMS 32)
Quick 88k Shanghai, China Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Quick 180k Ships Officers Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Quick 71k San Diego, early post-war Marc Piché
Quick 57k . Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
Quick 120k . Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
Quick 146k . ©John Robert Barrett
Quick 91k c. August 1946
San Francisco, CA
McCook (DMS 36), Davison (DMS 37), Mervine (DMS 31) and Quick		 Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
Quick 102k c. March 1947
Yokosuka, Japan
S1/c Albert De Pierro Jr. at his Battle Station		 Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
Quick 226k Aft plan view of Quick at Mare Island on 29 December 1947.
U.S. Navy photo 2470-47		 Darryl Baker
Quick 218k Forward plan view of Quick at Mare Island on 29 December 1947. Aft of Quick is Nashawena (YAG 35). Ships to the left are Chilean ship (all ex-U.S. Navy).
U.S. Navy photo 2471-47		 Darryl Baker
View the Quick (DMS-32)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource DD Pages, USS Quick (DD-490)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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