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DD-738 / DM-26 / MMD-26 Harry F. Bauer


Robert H Smith Light Mine Layer: Laid down at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine as Harry F. Bauer (DD-738), an Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer; Launched. 9 July 1944; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer (DM-26). 19 July 1944; Commissioned USS Harry F. Bauer (DM-26), 22 September 1944; Decommissioned. 12 March 1956 at Charleston. SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group; Redesignated a Fast Minesweeper (MMD-26), 14 August 1968; Struck from the Naval Register. 15 August 1971; Sold for scrapping, 1 June 1974 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service. Harry F. Bauer received a Presidential Unit Citation and four battle stars for World War II 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, 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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Harry F Bauer 65k - -
Thomas E. Fraser 35k Shannon (DM-25)
Harry F. Bauer (DM-26)
Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24)
Shea (DM-30)
USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM24)
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Harry F. Bauer 60k - -

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Shannon (DD-737)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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