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Dextrous (MSF 341)
ex-AM-341



Call sign:
November - Delta - Golf - Oscar

ex-HMS Sepoy (BAM 30)


Dextrous served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.
Auk Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down as HMS Sepoy (BAM 30) by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp, Chickasaw, AL
  • Renamed and reclassified Dextrous (AM 341)
  • Launched, 17 June 1943
  • Commissioned USS Dextrous (AM-341), 8 September 1943
  • Placed out of commission, in reserve, 5 June 1946 at San Pedro, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned, 1 December 1950
  • Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hull), MSF-341, 7 February 1955
  • Placed out of commission, in reserve, 31 October 1956
  • Transferred to South Korea in December 1967 and renamed Koje (PCE 1003)
  • 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, (one additional 3"/50 mount added by South Korea), two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks and five depth charge projectors (After
    transfer to Philippine Navy a second 3"/50 mount was added along with two additional 40mm mounts and four 20mm mounts)
  • Propulsion: Two 3,532shp General Motors 12-278 diesel electric drive engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Dextrous 43k U.S. Navy photo USS Dextrous (MCM-13) Web Site
    Dextrous 115k . Russ Padden
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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    Official Navy Web Site for USS Dextrous (MCM-13)
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