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Impeccable (MSF 320)
ex-AM-320



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Mike - Zulu

ex-HMS Brutus (BAM 7)

Auk Class Minesweeper: Originally planned as HMS Brutus (BAM 7); Reclassified and renamed Impeccable (AM-320), 23 January 1943; Laid down 1 February 1943 by the General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA.; Launched, 21 May 1943; Commissioned USS Impeccable (AM-320), 29 April 1944; Decommissioned, 27 March 1947; Recommissioned, 12 March 1952; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-320, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 14 October 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972; Sold for scrap 1 April 1974.

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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Impeccable 269k 15 March 1944
Under construction with the number 57 on her bow. Pocatello (PF 9) is in the lower right of photo.
U.S. Navy photo 1969-44		 Darryl Baker
Impeccable 66k . Joe Radigan
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; Gladiator (AM-319); Shoveler (AM-382); Defense (AM-317); Devastator (AM-318); Laertes; Condor (AM-5); Kite (AMS-22); Curlew (AMS-8); Chatterer (AMS-40), and Wallacut (YTB-420).
US Navy Photo 80-G-63229		 Naval Historical Center
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