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Facility (MSF 233)
ex-AM-233



Call sign:
November - Delta - Golf - India


ex-PCE-906


Facility served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 29 March 1944 as PCE-906 by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA; Reclassified as a Minesweeper, AM-233; Launched, 22 June 1944; Commissioned USS Facility (AM 233), 29 November 1944; Decommissioned, 11 September 1946 at Galveston, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-233, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1962; Transferred to Mexico 2 October 1962 and designated DM-04. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 945 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts.; Complement 104; Armament one 3"/50 cal. dual purpose mount and one twin 40mm gun mount, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (K-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.
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