USS Adams (DM-27)

Adams off San Francisco, California, 2 May 1945.
History
United States
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
Reclassified	20 July 1944 as Destroyer Minelayer DM-27 1 January 1969 as Fast Minelayer MMD-27
Stricken	1 December 1970
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 16 December 1971
General characteristics
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
Armament	6 x 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. guns 12 x 40 mm guns 8 x 20 mm cannons 2 x depth charge tracks 4 x depth charge projectors 80 mines

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.