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Robert H. Smith-class destroyer

USS Adams
Class overview
Name:	Robert H. Smith class
Builders:	Bath Iron Works Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Staten Island, New York Bethlehem Steel Corporation, San Pedro, California, Terminal Island
Operators:	United States Navy  Turkish Naval Forces
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:	4 Babcock & Wilcox or Foster Wheeler boilers; two General Electric or Westinghouse geared steam 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 Bofors AA guns (2 × 4, 2 × 2)[1] 11 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 2 × Depth charge tracks 4 × K-gun depth charge projectors 80 × mines

The Robert H. Smith class of destroyer minelayers was built by the United States during World War II.

These vessels were all originally laid down as Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers and converted during construction in 1944. In that time the United States produced twelve Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayers. Their original hull numbers were DD-735-40, 749-51, and 771-73.^[2] None of the Robert H. Smith-class vessels ever laid a mine in wartime, though they were frequently employed in minesweeping. Minelayers did not carry torpedo tubes. Otherwise they were used interchangeably with other destroyer types. As radar pickets at Okinawa, Aaron Ward, Lindsey, and J. William Ditter were damaged by kamikazes, and Shea by a Baka bomb.^[3] Five of the class served actively in the 1950s, but all survivors were mothballed by the end of the decade and were disposed of in the 1970s. None of this class received FRAM conversions.

Ships in class

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