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DD-739 / DM-27 / MMD-27 Adams


Robert H. Smith Class Light Mine Layer: Laid down, 20 March 1944 as Adams (DD-739), an Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer (DM-27), 20 July 1944; Launched, 23 July 1944; Commissioned USS Adams (DM-27), 10 October 1944 at Boston Navy Yard; Decommissioned, December 1946 at San Diego CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Reclassified (MMD-27) Fast Minesweeper, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1970; Sold for scrapping, 16 December 1971 to Chow Iron and Steel Co., Taiwan. Adams earned one battle star 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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Adams 62k Adams (DM-27) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA., late June 1945, following repair of Kamikaze damage.
US Navy photo 19-N-86927
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Adams 95k Off San Francisco, CA 2 May 1946, in what is probably Measure 22 camouflage, Navy blue (lower color) and haze gray (upper color).
USN Photo NH 77371.
Dana Welch

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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 Adams (DD-739)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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