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DD-735 / DM-23 / MMD-23 Robert H Smith


Robert H Smith Light Mine Layer: Laid down 10 January 1944 at Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine as the Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer Robert H Smith (DD-735); Launched 25 May 1944; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer 19 July 1944; Commissioned USS Robert H Smith (DM-23), 4 August 1944; Placed Out-of-Commission-in-Reserve 29 January 1947 at San Francisco; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified (MMD-23), a Fast Minesweeper, 14 August 1968; Struck from the Naval Register 26 February 1971; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 1 November 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing 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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