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Fixity (AM 235)



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - How - Fox

ex-PCE-908

Admirable Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 12 May 1944 as Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-908 by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA
  • Launched 4 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS Fixity (AM 235), 29 December 1944
  • Decommissioned 6 November 1946 at Bremerton, WA
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 23 January 1948
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists transfer to the War Shipping Administration as November 1948
  • Acquired in 1949 by Commercial Barge Lines of Detroit, MI for use as a tugboat, converted to river service in 1949 at Paducah Marine Ways, Paducah, KY and renamed M/V Commercial Dixie
  • Acquired in 1961 by the American Commercial Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, IN
  • Scrapped in 1964.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 945 t.(fl)
  • Length 184' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 9"
  • Speed 14.8 kts.
  • Complement 104
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), four depth charge projectors (K-gun), and 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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    USS Fixity (AM 235)
    Fixity 118k At Seattle, WA on 16 January 1945, wearing camouflage 32/23D. The colors should be dull black and light gray
    National Archives photo 19-LCM-AM235-1    		 Ships of the U.S. Navy in WWII “Dazzle” Camouflage
    M/V Commercial Dixie
    Fixity 143k Dan Owen
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Alfred Peter Kreiger, USNR29 December 1944 - 1 November 1945
    02LT George Charles Bevel, Jr., USN1 November 1945
    03LTJG Robert Frank Vales, USN13 August 1948 - 6 November 1946
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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    DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website
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