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McCook (DD 496)
ex-DMS-36
ex-DD-496

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 1 May 1941 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched 30 April 1942; Commissioned USS McCook (DD-496), 15 March 1943; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-36, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned 27 May 1949 at San Diego, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Transferred to Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton Group, Bremerton, WA; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-496, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 15 January 1972; Sold for scrap 1 August 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.

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McCook 63k 12 July 1945
Philadelphia Navy Yard
National Archives photo BS 89495		 Joe Radigan
Quick 91k c. August 1946
San Francisco, CA
McCook, Davison (DMS 37), Mervine (DMS 31) and Quick (DMS 32)		 Albert De Pierro Jr., S1/c
via Lisa De Pierro
McCook 114k Bow on view of McCook off Mare Island on 7 January 1947.
U.S. Navy photo 65-47		 Darryl Baker
McCook 82k Broadside view of McCook off Mare Island on 7 January 1947. She was under going repairs at the yard from 1 November 1946 to 11 January 1947.
U.S. Navy photo 67-47		 Darryl Baker
McCook 111k Stern view of McCook off Mare Island on 7 January 1947.
U.S. Navy photo 69-47		 Darryl Baker
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