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Sustain (MMC-2)
ex-MSF-119
ex-AM-119



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Golf - Kilo


Sustain served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
Auk Class Minesweeper/Strive Class Minelayer: Laid down, 17 November 1941 at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH; Launched, 23 June 1942; Commissioned USS Sustain (AM-119), 9 November 1942; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 17 June 1946 at San Diego, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Recommissioned, 14 January 1952; Placed out of commission, in-reserve, 9 October 1954 at Green Cove Springs, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; Reclassified MSF-119, 5 February 1955; Conversion to a Coastal Minelayer began 15 September 1958 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC: Reclassified as MMC-2, 31 October 1958; Conversion completed 30 September 1959; Struck from the Naval Register 1 October 1959 and transferred to Norway as Tyr (N 47). 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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USS Sustain (AM 119)
Sustain 46k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
am-114 95k Moored San Diego or San Pedro, c. 1946
From left to right: Strive (AM-117), Sustain, Steady (AM-118), and Staff (AM-114)
U.S. Navy photo NH 79735		 Naval Historical Center
Tyr (N 47)
Sustain 117k Sustain is transferred to the Norwegian Navy following conversion at the Charleston Navy Shipyard and renamed Tyr (N 47). The transfer took place on 1 October 1959. The stern of Tyr's sister ship Gor (N 48) (converted from USS Strive (MMC 1), ex-MSF-117, ex-AM-117 is visible at the extreme right.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96868		 Naval Historical Center
Sustain 77k Photographed 14 October 1959, soon after her transfer to Norway.
Courtesy of the U. S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD.
Collection of James C. Fahey.
U.S. Navy photo NH 68588		 Naval Historical Center
Sustain 90k Photographed 14 October 1959, soon after her transfer to Norway.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96870		 Naval Historical Center
Sustain 49k c. 1968 Robert Hurst
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