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Earle (DD-635)
ex-DMS-42
ex-DD-635



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Kilo - Oscar
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 14 June 1941 at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched 10 December 1941; Commissioned USS Earle (DD-635), 1 September 1942; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-42, 23 June 1945; Decommissioned 17 May 1947 at San Francisco, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Stockton, CA; Rerated as a Destroyer Minesweeper 7 February 1955; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-635, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1970; Sold for scrap in October 1971.

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.

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USS Earle (DD 635)
Earle 69k 10 October 1943
Off New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo BS 54580		 Joe Radigan
USS Earle (DMS 42)
Earle 148k . John Robert Barrett
Earle 140k c. 1946 David Buell
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