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DD-633 / DMS-40 Knight


Gleaves Class Destroyer: Laid down, 18 March 1941 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched, 27 September 1941; Commissioned USS Knight (DD-633), 23 June 1942; Reclassified and converted to High Speed Minesweeper (DMS-40), 30 May 1945; Decommissioned, 19 March 1947 at Bremerton, WA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet Stockton Group; Reclassified Destroyer (DD-633), 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1966; Final Disposition, disposed of as a target, (date unknown). Knight received four battle stars for World War II service.

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, two propellers.
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