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Knight (DD-633)
ex-DMS-40
ex-DD-633
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 March 1941 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched, 27 September 1941; Commissioned USS Knight (DD-633), 23 June 1942; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-40, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned and placed in reserve 19 March 1947 at Bremerton, WA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet Stockton, CA Group; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-633, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1966; Sunk as a target 27 October 1967.
Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 347' 10"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 261; Armament four single 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 Knight (DD 633) |
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20 October 1943
Off the New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-55085 |
Joe Radigan |
| USS Knight (DMS 40) |
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©John Robert Barrett |
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c. 1946 |
J. Clark |
View the Knight (DMS-40)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource DD Pages, USS Knight (DD-633)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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