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DD-772 / DM-33 / MMD-33 Gwin


Gwin served the Navies of the United States and Turkey.

Robert H. Smith Class Light Mine Layer: Laid down, 31 October 1943 at Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, CA as Gwin (DD-772), an Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer; Launched, 9 April 1944; Reclassified as a Light Mine Layer DM-33, 19 July 1944; Commissioned USS Gwin (DM-33), 30 September 1944 at Los Angeles, CA; Decommissioned, 3 September 1946 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 8 July 1952 at Charleston, SC; Decommissioned, 3 April 1958 at Philadelphia, PA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Redesignated as a Fast Mine Layer MMD-33, 1 January 1969; Transferred to Turkey, 15 August 1971 and renamed Muavenet (DM 357); Severely damaged by accidental firing of a Sea Sparrow missile by USS Saratoga (CV-60), 2 October 1992; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Scrapped (date unknown).

Specifications: Displacement 2,380 t.(lt) , 3370 t.(fl); Length 376' 6"; Beam 40' 10" ; Draft 18' 10"; Speed 34kts; Complement 363; Armament three twin 5"/38 duel purpose gun mounts, six twin 40mm gun mounts, eleven 20mm guns, two .50 cal. machine guns, two dct, four dcp; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two General Electric Corp. geared turbines, 60,000 shp at 36.5 kts., two shafts, Range 3,300 nm at 20 kts.
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Gwin 41k Gwin seen here prior to commissioning, note still carrying hull No.772, with Aaron Ward (DM-34) also still carrying old hull No. 773.
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