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DD-750 / DM-30 / MMD-30 Shea


Robert H. Smith Light Minelayer: Laid down 23 December 1943 as Shea (DD-750), an Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer, by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched 20 May 1944; Redesignated a Light Minelayer DM-30, 20 July 1944; Commissioned USS Shea (DM-30) 30 September 1944 at the New York Navy Yard; Decommissioned 9 April 1958; ; Redesignated a Fast Minesweeper MMD-30, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Naval Register 1 September 1973; Sold for scrapping 1 September 1974 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

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, and four dcp; Propulsion four Babcocks and Wilcox boilers, two General Electric geared turbines, 60,000shp at 36.5 kts, two shafts, two shafts, Range 3,300 nm at 20 kts.
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Shea 69k - -
Thomas E Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25), Harry F. Bauer (DM-26), Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24) and Shea USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM 24)
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Shea 56k - -
Shea 58k - -
Shea 83k - All Hands
February 1958

View the Shea (DM-30)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shea (DD-750)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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