TCG Muavenet (DM 357)

History
Turkey
NameTCG Muavenet
Launchedsee USS Gwin
Acquired15 August 1971
IdentificationDM 357
FateCrippled by Sea Sparrow missiles fired from USS Saratoga on 1 October 1992, broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Displacement2,200 tons
Length376 ft 5 in (114.73 m)
Beam14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Speed34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Armament

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.