TCG Muavenet (DM 357)

History
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	6 × 5 in (127 mm) guns; 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons; 4 cp., 2 dct.;

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.

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