USS Quick

History
United States
Name	Quick
Namesake	John H. Quick
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down	3 November 1941
Launched	3 May 1942
Commissioned	3 July 1942
Identification	DD-490
Reclassified	DMS-32, 23 June 1945
Decommissioned	28 May 1949
Stricken	15 January 1972
Fate	Sold 27 August 1973 for scrapping
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	4 × dual purpose guns,; 4 × Bofors 40 mm guns,; 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons,; 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes,; 2 × depth charge tracks;

USS Quick (DD-490/DMS-32), a

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 14 June 1898, during the Spanish–American War

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Quick was

launched on 3 May 1942; sponsored by Mrs. William T. Roy, niece of Sergeant Major Quick. She was commissioned

on 3 July 1942.

Service history

Following her initial shakedown off the coast of

transports and merchantmen as they plied the Gulf and West Indian shipping lanes — lanes which in preceding months had suffered the greatest losses to U-boat activities in the eastern Atlantic Ocean

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In October, Quick left the Gulf and steamed to

anti-submarine duties. On 14 November, she shifted to Casablanca and two days later assisted in sinking U-173. On the 17th, she got underway for the United States and at the end of the month anchored in New York Harbor. She resumed escort work and for the next six months guarded coastal and trans-Atlantic convoys

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On 8 June 1943, Quick departed the east coast with TF 65, bound for North Africa. Arriving at

Mediterranean runs until the end of the war in Europe

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The war in the

San Diego

after the cessation of Pacific hostilities.

Toward the end of September, she sailed for

Trust Territories and in August returned to the west coast. The following spring she deployed to the Marshall Islands

and Marianas for another three months, returning to San Diego on 4 June.

Eight months later she was designated for inactivation and, on 1 March 1949, she reported to Commander,

Pacific Reserve Fleet, decommissioning 28 May 1949. Reclassified DD-490 on 15 July 1955, Quick was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register