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Minivet (AM 371)

Call sign:
Nan - How - Zebra - Victor

Sunk 29 December 1945

Auk Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 19 July 1944 by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, GA

Launched 8 November 1944

Commissioned 29 May 1945

Struck a mine in the Tsushima Straits and sank, 29 December 1945

Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946.

Specifications:

Displacement 890 t.

Length 221' 1"

Beam 32' 2"

Draft 10' 9"

Speed 18.1 kts.

Complement 117

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, six 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), four depth charge projectors (k-guns), and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,566shp General Motors 12-278A diesel electric drive engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
27k	Namesake: *Minivet* - A type of cuckoo shrike of Asiatic origin	Tommy Trampp Photo added 23 April 2020
60k		Ron Reeves
242k	Sinking after hitting a mine off Tsushima Island, Japan, during mine clearance operations on 29 December 1945. At right is a Japanese mine-destructor trawler moving in to rescue survivors. Photographed from USS Redstart (AM-378) National Archives photo 80-G-607204	Mike Green

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR Richard Legreze, USNR	29 May 1945 - 17 September 1945
02	LT Robert Tate Irvine , USNR	17 September 1945 - 29 December 1945

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody

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