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Swallow (AM 65)

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Queen - Jig

Swallow sank 22 April 1945

Auk Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 19 July 1941 by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA

Launched 6 May 1942

Commissioned 14 January 1943

Struck by kamikaze plane at Kerama Retto and sank, 22 April 1945

Struck from the Naval Register 2 June 1945

Sunken hulk donated to the government of the Ryukyu Islands 10 July 1957.

Specifications:

Displacement 890 t.

Length 221' 2"

Beam 32' 2"

Draft 10' 9"

Speed 18.1 kts.

Complement 105

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, eight 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks and five depth charge projectors

Propulsion: Two 1,559shp ALCO 539 diesel electric engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	105k	Passing mail to a destroyer somewhere in the South Pacific. Photo from the September 1943 issue of "All Hands" magazine.		Joe Radigan
	273k	20 December 1944 San Francisco, CA		Ed Zajkowski

Commanding Officers
01	LT Luther Martin Kennett, Jr., USN	14 January 1943
02	LCDR Whitefield F. Kimball, USN	February 1945 - 22 April 1945


Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

View the Swallow (AM 65)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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