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DD-495 / DMS-35 Endicott


Bristol Class Destroyer: Laid down at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched, 5 April 1942; Commissioned USS Endicott (DD-495), 25 February 1943; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper DMS-35, 30 May 1945; Decommissioned, 17 August 1954 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified a Destroyer DD-495, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 348' 4"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 13' 5"; Speed 35 kts; Complement 208; Armament 4 single 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion four boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts.
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Endicott 86k - -
Endicott 57k - -
Endicott 97k - Hyperwar US Navy in II
Endicott 17k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Endicott 73k Thai frigate Prasae stranded behind enemy lines on the Korean east coast, January 1951. She had gone ashore in a snowstorm on 7 January and had to be destroyed after unsuccessful efforts to pull her off. A helicopter and several U.S. Navy ships, including USS Endicott (DMS-35), are offshore covering salvage operations. Prasae was formerly the British corvette Betony and the Indian Navy's Sind.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Naval Historical Center Photo 80-G-432568.
Fred Weiss

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Endicott (DD-495)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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