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DD-249 / DMS-13 Hopkins



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Clemson Class Destroyer: Laid down, 30 July 1919 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ; Launched, 26 June 1920; Commissioned USS Hopkins (DD-249), 21 March 1921; Reclassified, 19 November 1940 and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper DMS-13; Decommissioned, 31 December 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 8 November 1946 to Heglo Sales Corp. Hillsdale, NJ.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t(lt) , 1,308 t(fl).; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 10"; Speed 35.8kts; Complement 122; Armament four 4"/50s, one single 3"/23 gun mount, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow, Thornycroft or White-Forester boilers, two geared turbines, 27,000 shp at 35 kts, two shafts.
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Hopkins 18k - Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
Hopkins 89k . .
Hopkins 104k Hopkins steams past the transport area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. Ship burning in the left center distance is USS George F. Elliott (AP 13), which had been hit by a Japanese air attack earlier in the day.
USN Photo 80-G-34683.
Naval Historical Center
Hopkins 36k c. September 1943. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
Hopkins 85k Signaling to USS George Clymer (APA-27) in Empress Augusta Bay during the invasion of Bougainville, 1 November 1943.
USN Photo 80-G-55757
Naval Historical Center

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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 Hopkins (DD-249)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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