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Dipper (MSF 357)
ex-AM-357



Call sign:
November - Hotel - Yankee - Romeo
Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 November 1943 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR.; Launched, 26 July 1944; Commissioned USS Dipper (AM 357), 26 December 1945; Decommissioned, 15 January 1947 at San Diego, CA; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull),
MSF-357, 7 February 1955; Sold for scrap 5 January 1961.

Specifications: Displacement 945 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 14.8 kts.; Complement 104; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (k-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710shp Busch Sulzer 539 diesel engines, Farrel Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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