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Caravan (MSF 157)
ex-AM-157

Call sign:
November - India - Bravo - Juliet


ex-AMc-134


Caravan served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper, Caravan (AMc 134); Reclassified as a Minesweeper, AM-157, 21 February 1942; Laid down, 16 May 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched, 27 October 1942; Commissioned USS Caravan (AM 157), 21 January 1944; Decommissioned, 16 August 1945 at Cold Bay, AK and transferred to the Soviet Union as T-597; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-157, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Navy Register 1 January 1983. Believed to have been scrapped in 1956.

Specifications: Displacement 650 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts; Complement 104; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710shp ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Caravan 67k 18 January 1944 Robert Hurst
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