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Devastator (MSF 318)
ex-AM-318



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Juliet - November

ex-HMS Augusta (BAM 5)


Devastator served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down 15 December 1942 as HMS Augusta (BAM 5) by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA; Launched, 19 April 1943; Renamed and reclassified Devastator (AM-318) 23 January 1943; Commissioned 12 January 1944 as USS Devastator (AM-318); Decommissioned, 30 January 1947; Recommissioned, 26 February 1952; Reclassified a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-318, 7 February 1955; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 15 April 1955; Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Sold to Mexico in 1973 as ARM Sabastian Lerdo de Tejada (C-74); Reclassified G-06. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 2"; Beam 32' 2"; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts; Complement 105; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two dcpth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 2,976shp Baldwin VO8 diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Devastator 184k Photographed circa 1952, shortly after she was recommissioned for Korean War service.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96911		 Naval Historical Center
Defense 73k 8 October 1952. Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo, Japan with nine minesweepers and a harbor tug alongside. Ships nested from left to right are: Impeccable (AM-320); Gladiator (AM-319); Shoveler (AM-382); Defense (AM-317); Devastator; Laertes; Condor (AMS-5); Kite (AMS-22); Curlew (AMS-8); Chatterer (AMS-40) and Wallacut (YTB-420).
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-63229 now in the collections of the National Archives.		 Naval Historical Center
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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Official Navy Web Site for USS Devastator (MCM-6)
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