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Pursuit (AGS 17)
ex-AM-108



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Sierra - Lima
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 November 1941 at Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Winslow, WA; Launched, 12 June 1942; Commissioned USS Pursuit (AM 108), 30 April 1943; Decommissioned, 30 April 1947 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 15 February 1950; Reclassified as a Surveying Ship, AGS-17, 18 August 1951; Decommissioned, 30 June 1960 at Long Beach, CA; Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1960. Fate unknown.

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 reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Pursuit (AM 108)
Pursuit 52k c. 1941/42.
Under construction.		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 42k c. 1943.
On shakedown cruise.		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 92k c. 1943
Naval Institute Archives photo from the February 2009 edition of Naval History magazine		 Original photo: John Stone
Replacement photo: Joe Radigan
Pursuit 47k c. 1943
Inset inscription reads: "T. Lough and AM-108" - "Atsa My Boat 108."		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 56k 30 April 1943
Winslow, WA		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 63k c. 1944
San Francisco, CA		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 53k 17 April 1944
San Francisco, CA		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 53k 17 April 1944
San Francisco, CA		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 43k New York, after recommissioning. Larry Gillim
USS Pursuit (AGS 17)
Pursuit 34k Entering New York enroute to Brooklyn Navy Yard. Larry Gillim
Pursuit 44k c. 1950s John Stone
Pursuit 37k c. 1950s Larry Gillim
Pursuit 65k c. 1950s Larry Gillim
Pursuit 29k c. 1950s Larry Gillim
Pursuit 77k c. 1953
Thule, Greenland		 Larry Gillim
Pursuit 68k c. 1955
Dominican Republic		 Larry Gillim
View the Pursuit (AM 108)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Reunion Information
Place & date: 9 - 12 November 2008
Contact: 
Address: 
Phone: 951-682-1743
E-mail: jcsgunner@aol.com
Web site: www.usspursuitreunion.org
Remarks: AM-108/AGS-17
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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