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Gavia (AM 363)

Call sign:
November - Hotel - Zulu - Foxtrot

ex-PCE-907

Gavia served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 8 July 1943 as PCE-907 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 18 September 1943; Reclassified as a Minesweeper, AM-363, 27 September 1943; Commissioned, USS Gavia (AM 363), 23 July 1945; Demilitarized 19 March 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines; Decommissioned, 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China and turned over to the State Department for transfer to Chinese Maritime Customs as Yung Chun (AM 52); Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946; Yung Chun decommissioned and was struck 1 July 1962. Fate unknown.

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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