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History | |
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Turkey | |
Name | TCG Muavenet |
Launched | see USS Gwin |
Acquired | 15 August 1971 |
Identification | DM 357 |
Fate | Crippled by Sea Sparrow missiles fired from USS Saratoga on 1 October 1992, broken up for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 2,200 tons |
Length | 376 ft 5 in (114.73 m) |
Beam | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Armament |
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TCG Muavenet (DM-357) (previously USS Gwin, transferred in 1971) was a destroyer minelayer of the Turkish Navy crippled by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga during a NATO exercise in Saros Bay, Turkey in 1992, resulting in five deaths and 22 injured among its crew.