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USS Triumph (MMC-3)
ex-MSF-323
ex-AM-323



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Quebec - Golf

ex-HMS Espoir (BAM 23)


Triumph served the Navies of the United States and Norway.
Auk Class Minesweeper/Strive Class Minelayer: Laid down, 27 October 1942 for the Royal Navy as HMS Espoir (BAM 23) by the Associated Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Renamed/reclassified USS Triumph (AM 323), 23 January 1943; Launched, 25 February 1943; Commissioned USS Triumph (AM-323), 3 February 1944; Decommissioned, 30 January 1947 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Recommissioned, 28 February 1952 at San Diego; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-323, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 29 August 1955 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; Conversion to a Coastal Minelayer began 1 December 1959 at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC; Reclassified MMC-3, 4 December 1959; Conversion completed 8 January 1961; Transferred to Norway 27 January 1961 as Brage (N 49); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1961. Scrapped in 1978.

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 3,532shp General Motors
12-278 diesel electric drive engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Triumph (AM 323)
Triumph 61k . Joe Radigan
Brage (N 49)
Triumph 108k Seen as Brage (N 49) underway, 6 March 1961 soon after her transfer to Norway.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96869		 Naval Historical Center
Triumph 70k c. 1968 Robert Hurst
Triumph 47k c. 1968 Robert Hurst
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