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DD-462 / DMS-25 Fitch



DMS-25 call sign:
November - Uniform - Juliet - Bravo



Bristol Class Destroyer: Laid down at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass; Launched, 14 June 1941; Commissioned USS Fitch (DD-462), 3 February 1942; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper DMS-25, 15 November 1944; Reclassified back to a Destroyer DD-462, 16 July 1955; Decommissioned, 24 February 1956 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1971. Disposed of as a target, 1 November 1973.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 348' 4"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 38 kts; Complement 208; Armament four single 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts.
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Fitch 74k - Destroyers Online
Photo Courtesy Steve Lindsay,
nephew of crewmember Charles Lindsay
Fitch 225k Mediterranean. c. 1951 W. A. Wisnowski, SO1, '52-'56

View the Fitch (DMS-25)
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 Fitch (DD-462)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Destroyers Online

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