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Gladiator (MSF 319)
ex-AM-319



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Mike - Echo

ex-HMS Blaze (BAM 6)


Gladiator served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down 7 January 1943 as HMS Blaze (BAM 6) by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA.; Renamed and reclassified Gladiator (AM-319); Launched, 1 May 1943; Commissioned USS Gladiator (AM-319), 23 February 1944 ; Decommissioned, 4 October 1946 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 29 February 1952 at Long Beach, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-319, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 15 March 1955 at Long Beach, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach Group; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Sold to Mexico as ARM Santos Degollado (G 07), 19 September 1972; Reclassified P-106. 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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USS Gladiator (AM 319)
Gladiator 178k . USS Gladiator (MCM 11) Web Site
Gladiator 102k . Joe Radigan
Gladiator 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, Shoveler (AM-382), Defense (AM-317), and Devastator (AM-318), Laertes, Condor (AMS-5), Kite (AMS-22), Curlew (AMS-8), Chatterer (AMS-40), and Wallacut (YTB-420).
US Navy photo 80-G-63229.		 Naval Historical Center
ARM Santos Degollado (P 106)
Gladiator 74k ARM Santos Degollado (P 106)
Mexican Navy Photo		 Mexican Navy
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