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Endicott (DD 495)
ex-DMS-35
ex-DD-495



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Victor - Queen
Bristol Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 1 May 1941 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched, 5 April 1942; Commissioned USS Endicott (DD-495), 25 February 1943; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-35, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned, 17 August 1954 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-495, 15 July 1955. Fate unknown.

Specifications:: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 348' 4"; Beam 36' 1"; Draft 13' 5"; Speed 35 kts; Complement 208; Armament four 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four boilers, two General Electric geared turbines, two shafts.

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Endicott (DD 495)
Endicott 144k National Archives photo BS 48579 Joe Radigan
Endicott (DMS 35)
Endicott 86k - -
Endicott 97k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Endicott 17k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
Endicott 33k Coming alongside Doran (DMS 41) Dick Potter
Endicott 73k Thai frigate Prasae stranded behind enemy lines on the Korean east coast, January 1951. She had gone ashore in a snowstorm on 7 January and had to be destroyed after unsuccessful efforts to pull her off. A helicopter and several U.S. Navy ships, including USS Endicott (DMS-35), are offshore covering salvage operations. Prasae was formerly the British corvette Betony and the Indian Navy's Sind.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
U.S. Navy Photo 80-G-432568 from the Naval Historical Center.		 Fred Weiss
Endicott 75k c. 1953
Departing Korea
U.S. Navy photo from All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
View the Endicott (DMS-35)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Endicott (DD-495)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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