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DD-749 / DM-29 / MMD-29 Henry A. Wiley


Robert H. Smith Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 28 November 1943 as Henry A. Wiley (DD-749), an Allen M. Sumner Class Destroyer by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, NY; Launched, 21 April 1944; Redesignated as a Light Minelayer DM-29, 20 July 1944; Commissioned USS Henry A. Wiley (DM-29), 31 August 1944; Decommissioned, 29 January 1947; Redesignated as a Fast Minelayer MMD-29, 1 January 1969; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 30 May 1972.

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 Babcock 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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Henry A. Wiley 55k US Navy photo Destroyers Online
Henry A. Wiley 42k Standing within 200 yards of the beach at Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi is in the background. c. 1945.
US Navy photo
October 2002 issue of U. S. Naval Institute's Naval History magazine
Henry A. Wiley 119k Flying the "homeward bound" pennant from masthead to fantail. San Francisco Bay, 7 February 1946.
US Navy photo
October 2002 issue of U. S. Naval Institute's Naval History magazine

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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Henry A. Wiley (DD-749)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Destroyers Online

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