USS Adams (DM-27)
Adams off San Francisco, California, 2 May 1945.
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| Name: | Adams |
| Namesake: | Samuel Adams |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1944 as Destroyer (DD-739) |
| Launched: | 23 July 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 10 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1946 |
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| Struck: | 1 December 1970 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 16 December 1971 |
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| Class and type: | Robert H. Smith-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,200 tons |
| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 10 in (5.74 m) |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Complement: | 363 officers and enlisted |
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USS Adams (DM-27) was a destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant, junior grade Samuel Adams. The other two USS Adams that have existed were named after the second president.
Adams was laid down as DD-739, an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, on 20 March 1944 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was redesignated a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer DM-27, on 20 July 1944; launched on 23 July 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Maude Ryan Adams, the widow of Lieutenant Adams. Adams was commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 October 1944, with Commander Henry J. Armstrong in command.
After fitting out there, she embarked upon her shakedown cruise on 1 November. That cruise, which took her to Bermuda waters, lasted for the entire month. On 29 November, she headed back toward the United States and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 3 December. Following post-shakedown availability in the navy yard there, she put to sea on 11 December with Shea, bound for New York City and a rendezvous with Bennington. The two destroyer minelayers departed New York with the aircraft carrier on 15 December and set a course for the Panama Canal. The three warships transited the canal on 20 December and, on 22 December, headed for the California coast. They arrived at San Diego on 29 December and remained there two days undergoing repairs. On New Year's Day 1945, they got underway again, headed for Oahu, and they arrived in Pearl Harbor six days later.
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