USS Carmick (DMS-33)

History

United States
Name:	Carmick
Namesake:	Daniel Carmick
Builder:	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down:	29 May 1941
Launched:	8 March 1942
Commissioned:	28 December 1942
Identification:	DD-493
Reclassified:	DMS-33, 23 June 1945
Decommissioned:	15 February 1954
Struck:	1 July 1971
Fate:	Sold 7 August 1972 and broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,630 tons
Length:	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam:	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft:	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion:	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed:	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range:	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament:	5 × 5 in (127 mm) dual purpose guns, 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) guns, 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons , 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Carmick (DD-493/DMS-33), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Major Daniel Carmick (1772–1816), an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served during the Quasi-War with France and during the War of 1812.

Carmick was launched on 8 March 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. H. L. Merrill. The ship was commissioned 28 December 1942, Commander W. S. Whiteside in command. Later in the ship's career, she would be designated destroyer minesweeper DMS-33. After the ship decommissioned, her designation would revert to DD-493.

Carmick cleared San Diego, California on 19 February 1943 for Norfolk, Virginia, arriving on 10 March. Her varied and active career as an escort in the Atlantic began in April 1943 when she guarded a convoy to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, from which she returned to New York City to join the escort of a convoy bound for Casablanca. On 8 May she had her first enemy contact, delivering three depth charge attacks until being forced to break off the attack in order to rejoin the convoy. Returning to New York 1 June, Carmick stood north for training in Casco Bay. While running in a fog on 16 June, she struck a submerged object, which incident sent her back to Boston for four months of repairs.

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