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Robert H. Smith-class destroyer

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Class overview
Name	Robert H. Smith class
Builders	Bath Iron Works, Maine (6) Bethlehem Staten Island, New York (3) Bethlehem San Pedro, California (3)
Operators	United States Navy  Turkish Navy
Completed	12
Retired	12
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer minelayer
Displacement	2,200 tons (standard)
Length	376 ft 6 in (114.76 m)
Beam	40 ft 10 in (12.45 m)
Draft	18 ft 10 in (5.74 m)
Propulsion	4Babcock & Wilcox orFoster Wheelerboilers; twoGeneral Electric orWestinghousegearedsteam turbines, 60,000 shp (45,000 kW) total; two shafts
Speed	34 kn (63 km/h) max
Range	4,600 nmi (8,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	363 standard
Armament	6 ×5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. guns (in 3 twin Mk 38 mounts) 12 ×40 mm BoforsAA guns (2 × 4, 2 × 2)[1] 11 ×20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 2 ×Depth charge tracks 4 ×K-gun depth charge projectors 80 ×mines

TheRobert H. Smith class ofdestroyer minelayers was built by theUnited States duringWorld War II. The class was named for naval officerRobert H. Smith.

These vessels were all originally laid down asAllen M. Sumner-classdestroyers and converted during construction in 1944. In that time the United States produced twelveRobert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayers. Their originalhull numbers were DD-735-40, 749–51, and 771–73.^[2] None of theRobert H. Smith-class vessels ever laid amine in wartime, though they were frequently employed inminesweeping. Minelayers did not carrytorpedo tubes. Otherwise they were used interchangeably with other destroyer types. Asradar pickets atOkinawa,Aaron Ward,Lindsey, andJ. William Ditter were damaged bykamikazes, andShea by aBaka bomb.^[3] Five of the class served actively in the 1950s, but all survivors weremothballed by the end of the decade and were disposed of in the 1970s. None of this class receivedFRAM conversions.

The previous DM-classed vessels were all conversions from earlierflush-deck destroyers of WW1 vintage.

• USS Terror
• Abdiel Class
• French cruiser Pluton
• HMS Adventure (M23)

• Friedman, Norman "US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised Edition)", Naval Institute Press, Annapolis:2004,ISBN 1-55750-442-3.
• Gardiner, Robert and Chesneau, Roger,Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, 1980.ISBN 0-83170-303-2.
• Silverstone, Paul H.,U.S. Warships of World War II (Ian Allan, 1965),ISBN 0-87021-773-9

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