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DD-496 / DMS-36 McCook


Gleaves Class Destroyer: Laid down 1 May 1941 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle WA; Launched 30 April 1942; Commissioned USS McCook (DD-496), 15 March 1943; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper (DMS-36) 30 May 1945; Decommissioned 27 May 1949 at San Diego CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Transferred to Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton Group (date unknown); Reclassified Destroyer (DD-496), 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register 15 January 1972; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, 1 August 1973.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 347' 10"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 272; Armament 4 single 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion, 4 boilers, 2 steam turbines, 2 two shafts, two propellers.
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