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DD-740 / DM-28 / MMD-28 Tolman


Robert H. Smith Light Mine Layer: Laid down, 10 April 1944 as (DD-740), an Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer (DM-28), 19 July 1944; Launched, 13 August 1944; Commissioned, 27 October 1944 as USS Tolman (DM-28), 27 October 1944; Decommissioned, 29 January 1947 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified Fast Minesweeper (MMD-28), January 1969; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1970; Final Disposition, sunk as a target 25 January 1997. Tolman 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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Tolman 68k Portsmouth, NH. 27 October 1944. -

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