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Pirate (AM-275)

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Xray - Love

Sunk 12 October 1950

Admirable Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 1 July 1943 by Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL

Launched, 16 December 1943

Commissioned 16 June 1944

Decommissioned, 6 November 1946 at Bremerton, Washington

Assigned to Service Force, Pacific Fleet in December 1947 in Japanese waters in caretaker status, out of service, in reserve

Recommissioned, 14 August 1950 at Yokosuka, Japan

Sunk by mine, 12 October 1950 off Pusan, Korea.

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 single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectors (K-guns) and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,710shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
31k	-	USS Pivot Web Site and Lucy Howell
60k	-	Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
31k	-	.
97k	Painting by Richard DeRosset titled "Hidden Menace at Sin-Do Island," used in the book Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The U.S. Navy's Coastal & Motor Minesweepers, 1941-1953 by David Bruhn. USS Pledge (AM 277), which thereafter also suffered a mine strike and was sunk, is shown in the background	David Bruhn

View the Pirate (AM-275)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Photos of the sinking of USS Pirate (AM-275), 12 October 1950

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