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Requisite (AGS 18)
ex-AM-109


Call sign:
November - Alpha - Tango - Papa
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 12 November 1941 at Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Seattle, WA; Launched, 25 July 1942; Commissioned, 7 June 1943; Decommissioned, 23 December 1947 at Orange, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange: Recommissioned, 15 February 1950; Reclassified as a Survey Ship, AGS-18, 18 August 1951; Decommissioned 1 April 1964 at Philadelphia, PA and struck from the Naval Register. 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 Requesite (AM 109)
Requisite 89k AM-109 in a harbor, circa 1944. Her camouflage appears to be Measure 32, Design 1M.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1979.
U.S. Navy photo NH 89206		 Naval Historical Center
USS Requesite (AGS 18)
Requisite 25k U.S. Navy photo R. Parrett, CS2, ex-crew member
Requisite 124k Underway, circa the mid-1950s.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99105		 Naval Historical Center
Requisite 99k At the DEW line.
U.S. Navy Photo from the September 1956 issue of All Hands		 Joe Radigan
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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