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Motive (MSF 102)
ex-AM-102



Call sign:
November - Alpha - November - Oscar
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 14 April 1942 by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA; Launched, 17 August 1942; Commissioned, USS Motive (AM 102), 17 April 1943; Decommissioned, 15 June 1946 at San Diego, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hulled), MSF-102, 7 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1966; Sunk as a target in April 1968.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 2"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts.; Complement 105; Armament, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 3,118shp Busch Sulzer 539 diesel electric engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
Motive 87k 24 May 1944 Robert Hurst
Motive 106k c. April 1968
Preparing to be towed from Pearl Harbor, HI to be sunk as a target.		 ©Richard Leonhardt
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