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Seer (MMC 5)
ex-MSF-112
ex-AM-112



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Xray - Golf


Seer served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 28 November 1941 by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain (Cleveland), OH; Launched, 23 May 1942; Commissioned USS Seer (AM 112), 21 October 1942; Decommissioned 26 April 1947 at Orange, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange: Recommissioned, 8 November 1950; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-112, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 11 March 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Reclassified as a Coastal Minelayer, MMC-5, 31 October 1958; Conversion to coastal minelayer begun in Norway in September 1960 and completed in September 1962; Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy 15 December 1962 as Uller (N 50); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1963. 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 3,532shp General Motors
12-278 diesel electric engines, Farrel- Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Seer 109k Under construction Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Seer 34k c. March 1945
National Archives photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott		 Krlicbegovic Edib
Bosnia & Hercegovina
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