Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945

DMS-32 USS Quick (ex DD-490)

• Ellyson Class Fast Minesweeper (ex Gleaves Class Destroyer):
• Displacement: 1630 tons
• Length: 348'4"
• Beam: 36'0"
• Draft: 17'5"-17'6"
• Speed: 37 knots
• Armament: 4 5"/38, 5x4 21" torpedo tubes
• Complement: 276
• High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 50,000 h.p.
• Built at Federal, Kearny and commissioned (DD-490) 3 July 1942
• Converted to Fast Minesweeper at the Charleston Navy Yard, and reclassified DMS-32 23 June 1945

Additional Links:

• "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" -- USS Quick

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(As DD-490)

(At Shanghai, March 1946)

Officers--Fall, 1945 Front (l-r): K.M. Farmer; G.J. Stasen, N.J. Egan, F.SD. Holland Jr., J.E. Baxter, J.S. Swift, M.W. McMicken, R.D. Folkoff Rear (l-r): __ Bartels, Dr. J.M. Campbell, R.S. Eastman (XO), E.J.Foot (Capt), R.S. Lewellen, E.W. Schrimpf, H.W. Parker, J.W. Brown, R.W. Lide

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