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DD-736 / DM-24 Thomas E Fraser


Robert H Smith Light Mine Layer: Laid down 31 January 1944 at Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine as the Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer Thomas E Fraser (DD-736); Launched 10 June 1944; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer (DM) 19 July 1944; Commissioned USS Thomas E Fraser (DM-24), 4 August 1944; Decommissioned 12 September 1955 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmuth VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Struck from the Naval Register 5 November 1970; Final Disposition, scraped at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.

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 Babcocks and Wilcox boilers, two GEC geared turbines, 60,000SHP at 36.5kts, two shafts, two propellers, Range 3,300 nm at 20kts.
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